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Instead, we do all we can to downplay the slave-driving, self-denying, stultifying, I-feel-my-sense-of-humor-dying dimension of the Harvard experience. No sex in the Ivy League, they say? Radcliffe Union of Students hosts a dildo party every year. All work and no play? We run naked around the Yard twice a year (even if only to jazz us up for finals). Just a bunch of goody-two-shoes valedictorians? So what, we all pee on John Harvard before we graduate...
...many players prefer to downplay the magnitude of The Game to maintain their ability to execute without nerves playing a factor...
...month than Cognac in a year. France remains the largest importer in volume terms, but higher margins make Spain's market more lucrative. Last year it was the world's top market for Scotch in value terms with sales worth $460 million. And for a business keen to downplay its tweed-'n'-tartan image and appeal to a new generation of drinkers, the good news is that Spain's aficionados are young. Scotch Whisky Association spokesman Campbell Evans notes that 65% of Spain's public whisky consumption takes place between midnight and 4 a.m. "Even allowing for how late...
...including oil from North Africa) to grow from 15% today to 25% by 2015 - there has even been Washington gossip, denied by the State Department, that the U.S. will build a military base in São Tomé to protect its growing interests in the region. U.S. officials downplay strategic considerations in the rush to West Africa, despite the note in Vice President Cheney's recent National Energy Policy report that West Africa is "one of the fastest-growing sources of oil and gas for the American market." "There's been all this talk about a strategic dimension that...
Saad bin Laden ASSUMED ALIVE --Osama's son is only about 22 but Arab sources claim he has taken over the reins of al-Qaeda. U.S. officials downplay the likelihood that junior is in charge, but they say his role has increased since 9/11. Intel reports suggest Saad, a finance and logistics guy, is hiding out separately from his father on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border...