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...much frighten people--the scar's not that bad--as weary them. It's so difficult for him to communicate that everyone else just finds it easier to leave him mired in his isolation. So does he. Because he's the book's narrator, we know all about his low-key wit and the sharp, sure turnings of his mind. Bystanders have to make do with the reassurance printed on the business cards he brings out to explain his muteness: PLEASE REMEMBER: I AM OF NORMAL INTELLIGENCE...
...punishment," he says. And he's unapologetic about his use of the media to promote his work. "When I returned from Bangladesh in 1971 and wrote of the horrors I saw there, I obeyed all the rules back then for [an] intellectual with a book: the university circuit, stayed low-key, scholarly, no noise. The result: no readers, no critics, no attention drawn to the drama I had addressed. Since then, I've vowed to do whatever necessary to get people reading about burning issues and crises." The attacks on Lévy are unlikely to have much effect...
...have what it takes? How pro-Western - and pro-democratic - is he? As a competent central banker in the '90s, he helped protect Ukraine from the impact of the Russian financial meltdown in 1998 and established the Ukrainian hryvnia as a stable currency. He then transformed himself into a low-key Premier, appointed in December 1999 in a deal to dissuade him from running for the presidency against Kuchma. He stood by Kuchma during allegations against the regime of corruption and murder of political opponents. The most scandalous allegation concerned the disappearance and subsequent murder of Heorhiy Gongadze, an investigative...
Current Council President Matthew W. Mahan ’05, who endorsed Glazer but spent time at both low-key presidential and vice-presidential victory parties, said Glazer would be a successful council leader...
Midway through the first half, Bell had another key play, stealing the ball from freshman guard Tyler Klunick at the Terrier three-point line, dribbling all the way down the court and finishing with a low-key jam off two feet...