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...Fenton has run a very low-key campaign, speaking at city and town Democratic committee meetings and handing out business cards to people he meets...
...Senate voted 54 to 43 to allow Admiral Frank Kelso, the Chief of Naval Operations, to retire with his four stars and full pension. But what was expected to be a low-key event turned into a bruising battle after the Senate's seven women -- Democratic and Republican alike -- united to target Kelso for his disputed role in the Tailhook sex scandal...
...definitely not the heir apparent: Eugene Roberts, who at 61 is four years Lelyveld's senior and who left the Times in 1972 to transform the soggy Philadelphia Inquirer into one of the nation's foremost dailies. Lelyveld calls the low-key, deceptively shrewd Roberts "one of the great strategic thinkers in journalism," a judgment shared by most people in the industry. Several have tried to lure Roberts back into editing since he retired in 1990, after spurring his Inquirer staff to win 17 Pulitzer Prizes in 18 years on topics ranging from the intricacies of the federal budget...
Brown's coach Bob Gaudet took a little bit more of low-key approach, talking about how his team has been banged-up for the last month of the season...
That same night, Greg Kinnear took over as host of Later, NBC's post-Late Night half-hour recently abandoned by Bob Costas. Kinnear, the snickering host of the E! channel's Talk Soup, has done exactly what might have been expected with Costas' low-key, single-guest interview show: turned it into another Letterman knockoff. He has added a studio audience, an opening monologue (video clips of the day's news followed by Kinnear wisecracks) and lots of prepared shtick to keep the interviews from bogging down in, say, real conversation. For Julia Louis-Dreyfus, he introduced a taped...