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FlorCruz says the Chinese government will try to downplay any attacks if at all possible. "The government needs Hillary Clinton there to add prestige to this conference, and it wants to smooth things over to facilitate the upcoming (October) summit meeting between Chinese President Jiang Zemin and President Clinton. The media so far has downplayed coverage, and the government will try to play the polite host...
...think it's unfortunate when people [withchildren] downplay parenting when they don't wantto appear less serious," Mandryk says. "Someonetold me they really don't expect you to be male,but they really prefer it if you're neuter...
Lerner and West, as well as the visiting congressional representatives, do not permit dissent from the liberal agenda. In particular, Lerner attempts to hold all Jews hostage to it. But growth comes from freedom in learning, not the didactic orthodoxy Lerner and West prescribed. Although they attempt to downplay their solution as final, they hold themselves as moral examplars for the rest of society. By for saking the American ethic of democracy and capitalism, the two have accomplished little in the way of solving any racial controversies in this country...
There are several possible explanations for the desire to downplay our status as Harvard students. Some of us may feel that we are not worthy of the privilege bestowed upon us. It's like the Room 13 poster, trite but true: "Was I the mistake?" And some of us may feel a need to apologize for being at Harvard, an institution with an international reputation for elitism and egotism...
...political war chest larger than that of any of his opponents, leads the field in endorsements from congressional colleagues, and has won six consecutive Republican Party straw polls--in Arkansas, Louisiana, Arizona, Missouri, California and South Carolina--many party members, particularly those in the Northeast and Midwest, continue to downplay his chances of winning the Republican nomination in 1996. But the doubters are beginning to wane. "Having known him for 24 years," says longtime Texas political foe Chet Edwards, a Democratic Congressman, "I say anybody who doesn't take Phil Gramm seriously either doesn't know him or is crazy...