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...essential motions of the sport, already has the chips stacked in its favor. Fiasco starts the video, as all must, with a shout-out to his homies, but what follows isn’t the standard booty-shaking fare. It’s pleasantly low-key; clips spliced out of skateboarding home videos, wide shots of grungy urban blocks, and throughout it all, Lupe himself dipping about amicably. Half the pleasure is in seeing the decidedly gawky Fiasco jerking around in front of the camera. Swimming in an oversized hoodie, with a jumbo pair of glasses perched on his nose...

Author: By Sam D. G. Jacoby, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Popscreen: Lupe Fiasco | 4/19/2006 | See Source »

...district will also continue to support the Blue River vocational school, where more than 300 juniors and seniors spend their afternoons learning trades from nursing to marketing to auto-body repair. And there is a plan to build an alternative high school, which Adams envisions as a low-key place where, if they want to, kids can eat a doughnut while instant-messaging friends during loosely structured study hall, so long as they get their work done at some point. "Too many kids, at their exit interviews, say, 'I'm just done with this process--50 minutes, bell, 50 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dropout Nation | 4/9/2006 | See Source »

...weekends—like our State U. friends. But rarely can we do any of these activities without fretting about what we should be doing. De-stressing one’s life only really works when one is able to mentally let go.If it takes an isolated, low-key setting to finally get us to turn off the switch, then so be it. If even our relaxation time is occasionally organized, okay. At least we have mentally gone where we once may have feared to go.Upon returning to Harvard, we were still left with a few days of break...

Author: By Margaret M. Rossman, | Title: Spring Breakout | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

...what's it like to be a preferred customer at Marc Jacobs? Compared with the feeling at other luxury labels, the Jacobs vibe, like the brand, is low-key. "It's not by appointment or anything," says Rich. "Usually it's a pop-in kind of thing." Rich makes house calls?he has delivered clothes to model Stephanie Seymour in Connecticut and to Julia Roberts when she is in town?but he has never boarded a plane for a client, and his digs are nothing like the vault-like VIP suites at Louis Vuitton. He doesn't shut down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He's Got Their Numbers | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

...you’re looking to improve your sex life, and you want an overview that addresses both your body and your mind—while also keeping a low-key, fun attitude—then you’ll want to (s)explore this book...

Author: By Deborah Pan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: An Older Woman Introduces Us To The Joy of Sex | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

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