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...Division of Applied Sciences faculty, for example, voted 23-3 in March to go on record as opposed to the Core plan, saying it would downplay the importance of science and technology courses—as there was only one natural science half-course requirement in the initial proposal—and would discourage better students from attending Harvard...
When he found out that French ex-pat Bourdon-Feniou had “got in a three-way, I thought, Lord knows what’s going on.” The reunited members of the third floor downplay the drama that ensued with the menage à trois...
...broken by the occasional seemingly incoherent and very British announcements. “Wicket looks a beauty,” observes the announcer. Despite the beautiful wicket, a member of the Indian team makes a slip-up on the field. However, a group of physics concentrators in the corner downplay the fumble, noting that “Even [Nobel Prize winner Richard] Feynman made mistakes...
Regarding the claim by journalist Robert Fisk that the U.S. media downplay claims that the government does not want the public to know, there is a staggeringly obvious reason that Western newspapers did not cover the story of the “epidemic of cancer caused by Depleted Uranium (D.U.) in Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War” (News, “Renowned Journalist Criticizes the Media”, Feb. 5). The reason is that there was no epidemic of cancer caused by D.U. After pretty much every national health service has studied the issue, it is accepted...
...Ming might have chosen to tolerate and downplay O’Neal’s taunts to avoid stirring controversy as he adapts to a new environment in America. However, as students at Harvard, we cannot allow O’Neal’s affront to remain unanswered. Regardless of whether a considerable proportion of Asians in America demonstrate educational and economic prosperity, there is no justification for racial stereotyping or ethnic ridicule. We must draw the line before playful banter tumbles down the slippery slope into outright racism. At present, Asian Americans may constitute the invisible minority; nevertheless, this...