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Should they account for Umair's? With her husband and two sons (the older is Ahsan, 15), Farah Choudhry sought medical treatment for Umair in the U.S. on two previous trips. Last year she left her husband, country and life of financial security in Karachi for the modest two-bedroom apartment in Chicago that she shares with her sons. "I couldn't take it anymore," she says. "My close friends would say, 'The mad boy is coming' and hide their children so that his shadow would not come to their children." To appease her relatives, she dragged Umair to religious...
...says he also didn't figure on having to climb a ladder and swing himself over to the floor of his modest storage attic to get gym equipment...
...take the find at face value because [the items] may be of very modest historic value. This may be as good as it gets," Merrill-Oldham said...
...criticized past Yugoslav leaders for compromising Serb rights--he riled communist boss Josip Broz Tito enough in 1974 to get himself fired from his professorship at Belgrade University. When the opportunistic Milosevic, in a campaign to win over intellectuals, offered him the job back in 1989, Kostunica refused. Considered modest and honest, a true believer in democracy and the rule of law who once translated the Federalist papers into Serbo-Croatian, he helped launch a small opposition party in 1992. The highest office he attained was a seat in the Serbian parliament from...
...wasn't planned to look this way. When Susan and Bill Wigert bought the acre of property in 1975, they were looking for a modest vacation cabin. But as builders added rooms and bits of local history--beams from a San Francisco pier, hearthstones from Donner Pass--the place grew with an eccentric life of its own. Since 1982, when the Wigerts converted it to a bed-and-breakfast, the inn has developed something of a cult following...