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Williams wants everyone to downplay their more extreme philosophical impulses and work to preserve Anglicanism's unique assets. God, he says, intends that members of a church "have something to learn even from the people we most dislike or instinctively mistrust." It's a nice thought. Will it be enough to stop a split? Williams concedes he is not "absolutely confident" that the whole structure of Anglicanism can be kept together. But--by the help of God, no doubt--he's trying...
...sure if they signed any, so I think there’s a good shot,” Berg said. “I’m trying to keep my expectations modest, and not get my hopes up.”Murphy doesn’t downplay the importance of New York having a former Crimson coach who’d had experience watching Berg play.“I’m sure it doesn’t hurt because any time you have inside intelligence, it has more validity,” Murphy said...
...percent of the undergraduate population and 84 percent of those voting—cast their lot in favor of a calendar configuration that would put fall exams before Christmas, lengthen winter break, and end the school year a week and a half earlier than at present. Bok did not downplay the results of the referendum in an e-mailed statement to The Crimson a few days ago. He wrote that “the results will represent a significant factor in the minds of those who have ultimately to decide about this issue.” Bok did, however, question...
There might be little a p.r. consultant can do to erase the image of fat, happy rodents running around your restaurant. But trying to downplay the event is no longer possible. "You can't not do it," Argenti says about preparing for the worst. "You can't just say, we're going...
...Bush Administration is struggling to downplay North Korea's refusal to honor its agreement to shut down its Yongbyon nuclear reactor, which is producing plutonium that the regime has used to make nuclear weapons. "You know, we have a plan," a senior State Department official told reporters almost plaintively, after Pyongyang missed the 60-day deadline that ran out Saturday. "We're just a little delayed in the timing here and we're going to try to work with the partners in the next few days to get it back on track...