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...Even before the polls closed last night, Engler and other prominent Bush supporters sought to downplay McCain...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: McCain Triumphs in Mich. Primary | 2/23/2000 | See Source »

Penn's leading five should see considerable stage time, but Melissa Johnson doesn't want to downplay the importance of The Quaker Players' supporting cast...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Hoops, Penn Set Stage for Performance | 2/11/2000 | See Source »

While all of the candidates are still actively seeking endorsements, hoping to gain support after last night's debate, some downplay their importance...

Author: By Imtiyaz H. Delawala, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Campus Groups Throw Weight Behind Candidates | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

Amid all the angry disbelief, Egyptian officials had good reason to downplay the suicide theory. It invites speculation that fundamentalist terror groups may have penetrated the state airline. If FBI agents were to conduct interviews on Egyptian soil, it could arouse anti-American nationalists. The idea that a crazed pilot deliberately crashed an EgyptAir plane could wound the country's important tourist industry just as it is recovering from a terrorist massacre that killed 62 two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Prayer Before Dying | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

...crowds at the Preparedness Expo at the Denver Merchandise Mart earlier this month, where several thousand attendants watched merchants demonstrate how to load a blowgun, use dryer lint to start a fire and cook an egg on a stick. Even survivalist stalwarts at the event were beginning to downplay fears that the Y2K computer bug will cause chaos come Jan. 1. "I don't think that the world is coming to a screeching halt," says renowned survivalist Bo Gritz. But in Paonia, Colo., Joy MacNulty, 69, isn't taking chances. Not only is she laying in food, water, a woodstove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auld Lang Sigh | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

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