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Still, in the Toyota tradition, the tC offers terrific value in a low-key package. For a base price of $16,465, it comes with a sport-tuned suspension, antilock disc brakes, 17-in. alloy wheels and a chrome-tipped exhaust. Under the hood, there's a 160-h.p. four-cylinder engine. I didn't expect pulse-pumping pickup and didn't get it. But the five-speed manual I drove shifted smoothly in L.A. traffic. The steering was responsive, the ride firm, and during the brief spells in which I clocked more than 10 m.p.h. on the clogged freeway...
...opposite end of the emotional spectrum is the low-key Inoue, a perfectionist whose pre-tournament ritual consists of cleaning his room until it is as spotless as his fighting record. Obsessive-compulsive tendencies have served him well. His college coach, Hidetoshi Nakanishi, remembers seeing Inoue for the first time as an 11-year-old, practicing each day until his coaches would force him to stop. Even then, Nakanishi says, "I knew he was someone to be looking forward to." Nonetheless, Inoue's gold-medal-winning performance at Sydney was a shock. To earn first place, judokas have...
...best, Mann wears his hipness easily. It works particularly well in Collateral, which has a nice minimalist quality about it--just these two increasingly edgy guys, their car and the people they encounter. Those include, in Stuart Beattie's low-key but curiously literate script, a nostalgic jazzman, a soulfully menacing drug lord--and even Max's hospitalized mom. The most significant of these others is Jada Pinkett Smith's Annie, a prosecutor, who as Max's first fare of the night befriends him, then turns out to be the last victim on Vincent's list. She's good...
...other casino impresarios have brought sophistication to the new Las Vegas, MGM Mirage majority shareholder Kirk Kerkorian, 87, has supplied the scale. On three separate occasions over the past 35 years, the low-key billionaire investor has built the world's largest hotel on the Strip, most recently the mammoth 5,034-room MGM Grand in 1993. In the past five years, Kerkorian has ushered in a wave of consolidation, snapping up Steve Wynn's Mirage Resorts in 2000 and just last month agreeing to buy Mandalay Resort Group for $7.9 billion, including debt. A World War II pilot...
DIED. SIR RICHARD MAY, 65, British judge who adeptly steered the proceedings in former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's war-crimes tribunal; of a brain tumor; in Oxford, England. The low-key but occasionally prickly barrister resigned in February owing to grave health, after two years of regular courtroom wrangling with the defiant Serbian leader over everything from cell-phone use to the former dictator's efforts to blame the Balkan wars on Western political leaders...