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...while Card may ruffle a few feathers with his extreme discipline and conservative positions, past colleagues and friends say his low-key and friendly personality give him a softer edge...
...Israelis have rallied behind Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's promises of tough measures to restore security. But while the measures get tougher, the security menace to daily life in Israel and particularly on its settlements in the West Bank and Gaza shows little sign of abating. A low-key state of war is once again becoming a way of life for the Jewish State, and that may take a heavy toll on its morale after the optimism...
...subtle.) It takes a two-hour Yahoo search, using a wide range of Boston and fashion related keywords, to even find the Boston Fashion Week website (http://www.geocities.com/eosthepage/). With the Boston website, there is no need to duck for fear of being maimed by large, flying graphics. The low-key appearance of the site epitomizes Boston Fashion Week and Spring Fashion Weekend. The emphasis of the production is simplicity and providing the public with a concept of what fashion in Boston is right now and not to provide the public with an elaborate and expensive chance...
Though not the official beginning of spring, the Undergraduate Council’s low-key Springfest provides some with a sense that the warm weather and sandals are here to stay...
Even when he is writing about relatively fantastic subjects, like spirit possession in sheep, Murakami's sensibility is that of the skeptical realist. His narrator is inevitably everyman, contemporary Tokyo edition - a thirtyish urban male in a low-key, white-collar job, a somewhat passive fellow who doesn't expect much out of life and takes what comes with jaded equanimity. Like the narrators of Raymond Carver's stories - Murakami is Carver's translator - they are unremarkable men, less driven by the ethic to succeed and less enmeshed in the powerful webs of family and business and community than most...