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...Lafley’s hard work and low-key approach to management kept earning him new assignments...

Author: By Faryl Ury, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CEO Rejuvenates Procter & Gamble | 6/4/2003 | See Source »

Even for a White House in which staff members pride themselves on being low-key, Alberto Gonzales is inconspicuous. The flashiest thing he has done recently is briefly regrow his mustache. And yet the modest, Harvard-educated lawyer has a riveting story. The son of migrant workers in Texas, he grew up in a house his dad built, sharing two bedrooms with seven siblings. With no running hot water, the family boiled their bathwater on the stove. No phone meant that Gonzales had to walk to the corner pay phone to call his friends. Even the town's name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush's Supreme Challenge | 5/26/2003 | See Source »

...dawn by U.S. forces in Baghdad today. Numan is the highest-ranking former Iraqi official to be taken into custody by the U.S. so far and eighth on the list most wanted fugitives. He is also a man described on a US State Dept. website as rising, "from low-key provincial positions thanks to his reputed cruelty, brutal efficiency, and loyalty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The King of Diamonds Grabbed by U.S. | 5/22/2003 | See Source »

Crake is the low-key mad scientist in Margaret Atwood's rueful tale of mad science, Oryx and Crake (Doubleday; 374 pages), a book about an awful future. He's the kind of guy who says things like "Let's suppose for the sake of argument that civilization as we know it gets destroyed." He didn't intend that remark as a commentary on the book he's in, but it certainly could apply, especially if you factor in his next line: "Want some popcorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware the Gene Genie | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

Crake is the low-key mad scientist in Margaret Atwood's rueful tale of mad science, Oryx and Crake (Bloomsbury; 374 pages), a book about an awful future. He's the kind of guy who says things like, "Let's suppose for the sake of argument that civilization as we know it gets destroyed." He didn't intend that remark as a commentary on the book he's in, but it certainly could apply, especially if you factor in his next line: "Want some popcorn?" This is not quite a popcorn novel, but it's not all you would hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware the Gene Genie | 5/18/2003 | See Source »

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