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Amid the hubbub of the trial, Daschle's low-key style has made it easy to overlook his skills. And the unity of Senate Democrats last week made it easy to forget that they have not always been pushing toward the same goal. In the wake of the President's Aug. 17 admission that he had been lying to the country for months, Senate Democrats appeared to have both the ability and the inclination to throw him overboard. Senator Joseph Lieberman rebuked Clinton, calling his behavior "immoral" and "disgraceful." Several other Senators followed suit, and some privately considered calling...
Wilkinson's approach to this challenge is low-key. Unlike the motorboat-riding evangelists ("ambulance chasers," he calls them) who infest some locks, Wilkinson wants only to draw the men more closely into the Christian community to which most of them already belong. He has set up an 800 number for mariners in need of emergency pastoral care far from home, and in three months has logged 7,000 land miles in his white Ford Escort, recruiting shoreside ministers to respond. Boarding the Grainger at the Robert C. Byrd lock in West Virginia, he forgoes preaching in favor of hearing...
...realistic assessment of how fast this industry changes," says TIME's San Francisco bureau chief Michael Krantz. "You always want to outperform people's expectations. If you're a dominant company you want people to set the bar lower so you can always do more." This low-key response may also be part of an effort to convince the public -- and more importantly the Justice Department -- that supplying the software for 90 percent of the world's personal computers doesn't constitute a monopoly. If courts believe otherwise and Microsoft is found guilty of unfairly dominating the market for Internet...
...very low-key as a person. He's a goodlistener," Corlette says...
Critics say Hastert--who, barring yet another surprise, will be elected in January--would be a DeLay puppet. The controversial whip could use him to push a confrontational agenda while protecting DeLay from becoming a Gingrich-like target. But supporters say the low-key Hastert--a former high school teacher and wrestling coach--could be a "healing agent" in a body that needs one. Still, it's too soon to predict that Congress will return to normal anytime soon. Flynt cheerfully declared last week that the Livingston reports were "just the beginning." He has a list, he said...