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...second Inauguration of William Jefferson Clinton was a bit more modest than his first. The crowds, estimated at a quarter-million, were about a third the size of last time. The celebrations seemed a trifle more subdued. (Why not? We're all a little older now.) Yet it was no less a day befitting what Clinton called, in his 22-minute Inaugural Address, "the world's indispensable nation"--dignified when it needed to be but otherwise at ease. Inauguration Day can be the most public of public occasions. The President squares his shoulders, raises his right hand and self-consciously...
...perfectly frank, it feels great [to be able to give a gift like this to Harvard]," said John Cullinane. "It is a modest contribution by Harvard standards, but the department is very appreciative, which is great...
...Moscow has spoken vaguely of economic incentives for remaining part of Russia, and Chechnya desperately needs capital to rebuild an infrastructure destroyed by 20 months of heavy fighting. With the international community squarely behind Moscow, Maskhadov knows secession is probably a distant dream. So Monday, he kept his program modest. "People are very tired of war," Maskhadov said Monday. "If people place their trust in me, we will have a chance of a better future...
...Government is over; perhaps the same is true of big Inaugurals. But it may be that Clinton has learned something else: lowering expectations is a powerful way to set the stage for exceeding them. If the first Inaugural was a grandiose affair that presaged only modest achievements, perhaps only a modest beginning can prefigure something truly grand...
...years he was the fiery voice of TV liberalism on Crossfire; during the same period I battled bravely against my quick-witted and Republican mother-in-law. While Kinsley and I both contribute to this magazine, he tends to get a full page or more, while I get a modest two columns. And when he left old media to go to Microsoft, where he founded Slate, an online magazine www.slate.com that transmitted its first bits seven months ago, pundits everywhere interpreted the event as a sign that serious journalism was finally coming to the Web. When I launched the Netly...