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That's about as moist and mystical as it gets from Garner. For all the lofty dreams of planting liberty in fresh soil, the Bush Administration dispatched a pragmatist with a low-key manner and rolled-up sleeves to get the job done. "Jay's way," as his subordinates call it, involves no waffling, full accountability, foot on the gas, getting results. He has a staff of 200, but they were still stuck in Kuwait last week waiting to be told it was safe to set up shop in Iraq. "There is the physical thing--roads and bridges...
...fine with him. He's an art-film director in Bollywood-besotted India, and he makes movies not in Hindi but in Malayalam, the language of his native Kerala - two strikes against widespread recognition. A temperamental auteur whose cinematic talents - and ego - are in inverse proportion to his low-key fame, Adoor's intense, demanding films have been worshiped by Indian and foreign critics and celebrated in self-consciously sophisticated Kerala, yet they've barely been released in much of India. But with the visually generous Shadow Kill, the man whom filmmaker Shyam Benegal calls "probably the best director...
...Harvard JV softball team has been in existence for as long as Harvard has had a varsity squad. Like all JV squads, the team’s low-key nature greatly reduces the amount of fanfare and attention it receives...
Likewise, the atmosphere of the reading is cheerful and low-key. Students sit in comfortable easy chairs around the wooden table, munching on mints and cookies, waiting for their turn to speak...
...Still, some observers say Wen's low-key consensus-building approach may ultimately be the best way to finish what his boss started. "Whether he comes off as charismatic really doesn't matter," says a Western businessman. China has accomplished much of the necessary broad-brush reforms and now needs to do the detail work?a task for which Wen is well suited...