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Many academics objected to Summers’ downplay of claims of discrimination which they say disregard decades of research...
...since announcing his candidacy for President in early May, Rafsanjani has tried to downplay his conservative reputation. When addressing young people, he emphasizes education and job opportunities but acknowledges that generation's discontent over the lack of freedom. In campaign leaflets, he promises a "transition to democracy." His makeover is testament to his ability to read political winds. The landslide re-election in 2001 of current President Mohammed Khatami made the idea of change so popular with voters that in this year's campaign everyone is posing as a reformer of some sort--even hard-line conservatives, who appear...
...actually carries a lot of street cred," he says. "It is perceived as being slightly antiestablishment, the enfant terrible of broadcasting." In a 4 1/2-min. p.r. video being prepared for potential distributors and advertisers, al-Jazeera execs refrain from using bin Laden's image but otherwise do little to downplay militancy. To a techno beat, the video shows a gunman with an AK-47 rifle, street mayhem in Jerusalem and other disturbing images from the Arabic channel's news footage...
...type of large-screen, flat-panel displays. Sharp may have better technology, but Masuda wonders whether it can reduce costs enough to defeat the makers of PDP sets, which are significantly cheaper. "There is a real price battle going on," says Masuda, as Sharp jockeys for position. Sharp executives downplay such claims, saying the market is big enough for sellers of both types of large-screen TVs to prosper. "That is the benefit of being relatively small and targeted," says Toshishige Hamano, Sharp's international business director. "We are not aiming at all users...
Michael Grynbaum’s ill-informed article (“Nazi In Our Midst,” Magazine, Feb. 10), which misrepresents my keynote address at the recent David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies Conference at Boston University, and attempts to downplay Harvard’s role in enhancing Nazi Germany’s image in the West, has just come to my attention. The Crimson never notified me of its publication...