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...these concerns, some members of the Bush administration have sought to downplay expectations concerning the success of the elections. Officials have begun emphasizing the fact that the vote itself is only the first step in a long process of constructing a new government. The National Assembly still must take office, elect a prime minister, establish remaining government agencies and field a police force able to maintain security. It will also be charged with the monumental task of writing a constitution to facilitate elections later this year or in 2006. Any one of these steps may undermine the project of establishing...
Kansas is a key flashpoint in this struggle. Back in 1999, a conservative state school board attempted to downplay the importance of Darwinism by removing from the required statewide science curriculum references to dinosaurs, the geological time line and other central tenets of the theory. Evolution, they argued, is "just a theory" and should not be favored over other theories, such as I.D. In the next election, Kansas voters gave moderates an edge on the school board, which promptly dropped the effort to revise the curriculum. In the 2004 election, however, conservatives retook the board, and while a curriculum advisory...
...youngsters between ages 10 and 15 did not agree with their parents about the severity of their condition. More often than not, it was the parents who didn't realize how bad the problem was. "Kids don't want to worry their parents or miss sports, so they downplay things," says Sears...
Harvard’s apologists have never actually denied most of the allegations. Rather, they have opted either to remain deafeningly silent, to downplay the significance of the findings, or to counter that, well, everyone was doing...
Harvard coach Katey Stone, however, didn’t downplay Corriero’s on-ice success...