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...Court decision allowing him to claim victory if he gets only a simple majority in the national vote of confidence. Not taking chances, Yeltsin's team launched a final, Western-style media blitz, with pop stars rocking for reform in a Kremlin concert and a televised look at his modest apartment...
...brightest students ever at Harvard... ever," said Dan Lieberman, a former Dunster House tutor. "What's more important is that she was a warm, generous, down-to-earth, modest, courageous person...
Professors that teach courses will be paid a "modest honorarium," according to the guidelines governing the academic activities of retired professors...
SCIENTISTS HAVE KNOWN FOR YEARS THAT EVEN modest amounts of lead in children's blood can result in nasty learning problems. What they didn't know was whether the damage was reversible once the lead was removed. Well, it certainly helps, according to a six-month study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers studied 154 children with moderate lead poisoning and found that when blood lead levels were reduced, IQ scores rose an average of three points...
Playwright Barker, one of Britain's premier ideological artists, gives this outspoken woman a subtle, likable enemy in the person of the ruling doge, glitteringly played by Frank Langella. Also arrayed against her are a female critic and, on occasion, her own lover, himself an artist of more modest and domestically inclined talents. While the parallels with contemporary culture wars are obvious -- and reinforced by the use of electronically jazzed-up classical music during scene changes -- the text is short on plot and long on debate, to a degree that makes Shaw look taciturn. In touching on many themes...