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...Still, with both Barak and Arafat politically unable to pursue long-term peace talks right now, and the next U.S. administration unlikely to try to force the pace in the style of the Clinton administration, both sides may be positioning themselves for a year or more of low-key hostilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mideast Time-Out May Help Both Barak and Arafat | 10/23/2000 | See Source »

...Waggoner family--Laila, Ben and their three children--"swear by the always snowy Nub's Nob and its low-key attitude. "You never feel the stress that you feel at other ski areas," says Laila. During their Christmas vacations, they have tried it all: rental homes, hotels and condos www.nubsnob.com) Now they have their own vacation home minutes from the resort so they can play host to their extended family for the holidays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Not Home For The Holidays | 10/16/2000 | See Source »

This is something Guest is good at. He says the idea for his new film arose at a dog park where he took his own pooches. He liked the "very low-key, nice people" but noticed that their discussions about dogs "sounded like they were about children." This struck him as funny, and he spent a year visiting dog shows. The director--who appears in his film as a bloodhound owner who really wants to be a ventriloquist--is also into technique. "In the past 10 years," he says, "film has become very unspontaneous, whether it's using digital technology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Lord of Losers | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

...black bears that wander into the backyard can be pretty exciting. But visitors to the eminently cozy Mount Juneau Inn in Juneau, Alaska, tend to save their best reviews for Leo, the bed-and-breakfast's low-key resident MacKenzie River husky. "He's the world's greatest dog," raves New Jerseyite Christine de Vries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Northern Exposure: MOUNT JUNEAU INN, JUNEAU, ALASKA | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

...dreams, and their appeal depends on not calling attention to their silliness, on permitting them to maintain their premises. This is something Guest is good at. He says the idea for his new film arose at a dog park where he took his own pooches. He liked the "very low-key nice people" but noticed that their discussions about dogs "sounded like they were about children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lord of Losers | 9/27/2000 | See Source »

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