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Currie has a record of squeezing through tight spots, which makes her a much more nimble character than the snapshots suggest. She is so modest she neglected to tell her classmates at a high school reunion what she does for a living. "You almost had to drag it out of her that she worked at the White House," says Waukegan Township High School classmate Chandra Sefton. She is so reserved that she often uses only facial expressions to reveal her opinions. She keeps her private life so private that some of her co-workers were not really aware...
...city where people make a career of being overestimated, Currie understood the value of doing exactly the opposite. A modest upbringing and innate humility helped. Being a black woman in a white-male power structure did too, to the point that to this day all the faintly patronizing descriptions of her vast maternal instincts ignore the considerable influence she has exerted over the years. More than one White House veteran will say without prompting that Currie got her job in part to bring some diversity to the West Wing. That dismissive attitude just helped Currie fly below the radar...
...overcast afternoon, in a modest room in Minneapolis, 23 teenagers are in earnest conversation with one another--and with the Lord. "Would you pray for my brother so that he can raise money to go [on a preaching trip] to Mexico?" asks a young woman. "Our church group is visiting juvenile-detention centers, and some are scared to go," explains a boy. "Pray that God will lay a burden on people's hearts for this...
...hoping for a takeover at a fat premium. But if no deal surfaces, you're sunk. Besides, the latest deals have been "mergers of equals," which allow two banks of similar size to hook up without one paying a big premium for the other. Shareholders still get a (more modest) pop, but in both stocks, not just the target's. So you can do well owning the buying bank--say, a NationsBank, First Union or Chase Manhattan. In many cases, that will be the better long-term investment anyway. But I'd also consider simply plunking some money...
...what about in practice? One day, I wore a skimpy outfit; the next, I wore an especially modest one. Decide for yourself if Harvard is immune to the obsession over appearance. A Day in the Life of an Upscale Whore...