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...year's presidential campaign. Candidates have made a concerted effort to appeal to the anti-intellectual preferences of certain voters. John McCain, a Republican presidential candidate, frequently jokes about his fifth-from-the-bottom finish at the U.S. Naval Academy. Gore and Bradley have similarly made the effort to downplay their respective Harvard and Princeton educations in recent months...
...This year's dance, say Cendan and Garcia, will be known as "The Best of the Quad" Formal. Residents of all three houses downplay the effects this move will have on Quad relations. Cendan and Garcia are already planning more Quad-wide events and would be happy to include Cabot--but only with three-way divisions of work and profit. And, according to Jones, "[This year's situation] doesn't preclude future chances of having a Quad formal...
While administrators at several schools have recently tried to downplay the impact of the U.S. News & World Report's annual college rankings, the numbers tell a different story...
...question of whether to trumpet or downplay one's Harvard ties when running for office comes up "all the time," according to Professor Philip R. Sharp of the John F. Kennedy School of Government...
...When we've been number one, we've tried to downplay it," Lewis said. "We've always said that ordinal rankings are not as valuable as the wealth of information that U.S. News and other publications make available to students...