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...would like to present a modest proposal to the Harvard community...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Modest Proposal for Dowling | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

MICHAEL PENN: MARCH (RCA). Surprise. Here's a homage to the playful high seriousness of Beatles music that sounds workably modest, modern and personal. Penn (yes, he's got an actor brother named Sean) takes a while to find his footing, but once he does, tunes like Big House grab hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Mar. 12, 1990 | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

...Modest: Discussing the accomplishments of his Bruins team, which recorded its eighth Ivy record of .500 or better in the 36 years Brown has participated in the league, Cingiser noted that five of the previous seven teams who accomplished the feat included two of the best players in Brown history...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Two Disappointing Endings to Cagers' Disappointing Season | 3/6/1990 | See Source »

...Modest folks at Brown...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Two Disappointing Endings to Cagers' Disappointing Season | 3/6/1990 | See Source »

...free-market measures that is transforming other communist states. "Nobody should dream that we are going toward capitalism," growled Castro. "On the contrary, we have to socialize progressively." The committee's new program is actually a continuation of the "rectification of errors" campaign launched in 1986 to reverse the modest free-market reforms instituted in the mid-1980s. Castro abandoned that experiment, complaining angrily that it had produced skyrocketing prices and corruption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba Fidel's Race Against Time | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

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