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...President Rudenstine: They say that alums really hold sway over fair Harvard. And the Senior Gift people said that if I really wanted to effect change, I should donate to the University and write letters to the top brass. So I write you today, as an alumnus and modest donor, with the hope that these new-found designations hold you interest better than my role as a squawking newspaper writer...
Despite his modest beginnings, Jackson has always had lofty aspirations...
...described the living conditions as modest, at best...
SOUTER VS. SCALIA (1998) The Supreme Court Justices, both graduates of Harvard Law and appointed by Republicans, could hardly be more dissimilar in their life-styles. Financial-disclosure forms released last week highlight the differences between David Souter, 59, a modest resident of Weare, N.H., and Antonin Scalia, 63, a globetrotting crusader for conservatism...
...massacre, the Senate was debating a juvenile-crime bill. Then the bulletins flashed across TV screens, we were back in the helicopter over yet another school, more running children, fluttering yellow crime tape, flushed sheriffs, nodding anchormen. We didn't know what it would take to pass the first modest gun-control provision in five years...