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Barnaby’s beginnings as a squash coach were modest. When he coached at the Harvard Club of Boston in the ’30s, squash pros received little respect and Barnaby was even required to enter the building through the back door...
...Crimson had just completed a sterling half of play on both sides of the ball. Harvard held Princeton to a modest 43 percent shooting—with no Princeton player converting more than two field goal tries—while outrebounding the Tigers, 13-10. The Crimson also converted on half of its shots, including six-of-11 from beyond...
...with a surging budget, no hard choices are being made. The defense plan allows for some modest transformation: the Navy will spend $1 billion to convert four Trident submarines that now fire nuclear missiles into Tomahawk cruise-missile launchers. The Army will fork out $707 million to develop lighter tanks, and the Air Force will pay $629 million to accelerate development of the Global Hawk unmanned spy plane, which flies farther and higher than the Predator, surveying more terrain. The Pentagon wants $3.3 billion to speed the gathering and distribution of intelligence, and $1.3 billion to improve communications. Special forces...
Friends and acquaintances saw Fastow as a low-key family man. Attorney Robert Lapin, who has known him for a dozen years, calls him "modest, unassuming, not at all self-aggrandizing." At his temple, Congregation Or Ami, Fastow spent time helping shape some of the congregation's education programs along nontraditional lines. Says Rabbi Shaul Osadchey: "He was one of those people who could think outside...
...branching out to find new audience niches, or in other words, using different formats to display her hugely iconic anatomy. For example, besides Crossroads, Britney has delved into the publishing world with her and her mother Lynne’s discussion of girl-dom and parenting in the modest seller Heart to Heart. Though Spears quite unjustly did not receive the National Book Award, pubescent girls of many diverse levels of self-esteem enjoyed Britney and mom’s analysis of body image issues. After reading the book, many girls then watched her performance on the 2000 Video Music...