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Still, despite the relatively low-key public response to the beatings, the situation could still change for the worse. The FBI and the local district attorney have said they are monitoring the department's internal investigation and could bring charges against the officers. Ramsey has been under pressure to revamp the department's policy on the use of violence in the face of 35 incidents in two years where police have killed civilians. Smith says the black community has its eye on Nutter - one of a new, younger, and largely untested generation of African-American leaders - and expects...
...years ago that people were fighting over the establishment of the Women’s Center.” Another intern at the Women’s Center, Nikki A. Johnson, a student at the Graduate School of Design, said the event was a “very low-key and friendly way of inviting a lot of different people into the space.” “It helps people to see that we put on a whole range of events, some more serious than others,” Johnson said. Ullman said that over the last couple...
...Maybe that's why his campaign, in the final weekend before the Indiana and North Carolina contests, had a determinedly new feel - low-key, intimate, a series of Kodak moments. Or maybe it was Obama's way of trying to tell Hoosiers that he's not all that different than they are, whatever they might have heard about his controversial former pastor or the question of whether he wears an American flag on his lapel. In Indiana, there were two picnics, a roller-skating party, a game of pickup basketball. His daughters, 9-year-old Malia and 6-year...
...minute. Redbelt contains even more plot than that, too much of it, I think, for a film of quite modest length to carry comfortably. It feels to me a little rushed and breathless, despite the fact that it is generally well-played and is beautifully photographed in a low-key burnished light by Robert Elswit, who just won an Oscar for There Will be Blood. This cram-it-all-in manner is particularly surprising given that the film is obviously a labor of love for Mamet, who tells us in a director's statement that he has spent something like...
...Brown's low-key style of advocacy on such issues, however, has done him little good at home. He is battling splits within his party and is braced for an electoral mauling in civic and mayoral elections on May 1. A poll for the Sunday Times newspaper, published on April 13, put support for the Conservative opposition at 44% to Labour's 28% and showed that Brown's personal ratings have plummeted...