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...addition to his widely reported experience in foreign affairs, including official service in three administrations, Vance offered a proven diplomatic skill and a low-key professional style. The most frequent adjectives appearing in newspaper descriptions of Vance are "realistic", "cautious", "self-effacing", "a good manager", a "brilliant technocrat", "incredibly loyal". He has earned credentials for negotiating time and again, in Korea, Panama and Cyprus...
...explicit socialism distinguishes In These Times from the politics of numerous hip-capitalist papers like the Village Voice, or the Real Paper. And its low-key style makes its stated concern with democracy more credible than leftist papers whose strident rhetoric gives anti-capitalism an authoritarian tenor...
Died. Jean Gabin, 72, veteran of nearly 100 films and one of France's top box office stars for four decades; following a heart attack; in Neuilly, France. A factory laborer before becoming an actor, Gabin was best known for his low-key portrayals of handsome, earthy loners: the Spanish legionnaire in La Bandera (1935), the jewel thief in Pépé le Moko (1937), the soldier-mechanic in Jean Renoir's classic, Grand Illusion (1937). His memorable later roles included the lawyer who falls in love with a prostitute (Brigitte Bardot) in Love Is My Profession...
Lyman also attributed the unencouraging results of the drive, which has now become an open-ended, low-key effort to solicit special gifts, to a national decline in interest in scholarship support and the faltering economy...
...low-key business because we don't want to take business away from the local pharmacies," Karl Wood, chief pharmacist at the UHS store, said last week. And so far, the major Harvard Square competitors say they have no complaints...