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After this humbling experience I am inclined to review my earlier belief that French children must be at a disadvantage when it comes to mental arithmetic.
In Russia, the Moscow Times said it would be "hard to imagine a more humbling scene for Alexander Solzhenitsyn" than the print run of 5,000 copies given to his latest "vitriolic indictment of post-Soviet society"--his book Russia in the Abyss . "Former presidential bodyguard Alexander Korzhakov's memoirs of his time as a member of Yeltsin's coterie came out in 50,000 copies," the paper said.
Beyond is the gorge’s narrowest point, the Sideróportes (Iron Gates), only 3.5 m (11 ft) wide but 300 m (1,000 feet) high, a truly humbling sight and the most memorable, for from here the gorge opens up as it approaches the sea and is much less striking.
The humbling of Clinton would also serve a political function: It would placate conservatives, especially if service were combined with a haymaker congressional censure.
It is quite humbling for me to have people with much more experience than I call and ask to be considered for a position.