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...clerk, television celebrity, journalist, observer of life and creator of the 25 year-old comic series "American Splendor" - can now add "movie star" to his c.v. "American Splendor" started in 1976 as a self-published autobiographical comic book that chronicled the author's living and working in Cleveland. Disarmingly low-key and driven mostly by the working-class intellectual author's irascible but entertaining personality, "American Splendor" uses a medium associated mostly with sensational escapism for odes on the frustrations, triumphs and mundanities of ordinary life...
When National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice is not with President George W. Bush, her deputy, Stephen Hadley, is. A longtime policy hand, he has a quiet, low-key manner that makes him a perfect person to deliver tough news to the President. That's what he did last week when he disclosed that he had belatedly found two memos from the CIA expressing serious doubts about intelligence claims that Iraq had tried to acquire uranium in Africa. He thus offered himself as the fall guy for the disputed sentence about uranium that wound up in Bush's State...
...People are looking for low-key things to do late at night,” Chopra explained...
APPOINTED. BILL KELLER, 54, low-key former managing editor and foreign editor of the New York Times; as executive editor, the paper's highest-ranking newsroom post; in New York City. Keller takes over from former executive editor Joseph Lelyveld, who was brought back as acting newsroom chief after the June resignation of Howell Raines amid newsroom dissension following disclosures of extensive fabrications in stories by reporter Jayson Blair...
Sitting on the edge of a marsh outside the town of Novato, 20 miles north of San Francisco, DriveSavers cultivates a low-key image. There is no sign on the firm's office building and no obvious front door. DriveSavers does a lot of business with the more secretive branches of government, which, Gaidano says, prefer that his firm keep a low profile...