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Knowles said he did not mean to downplay the importance of the students' complaints that the University lacks enough ethnic studies courses and Latino faculty...
...prince yesterday tried to downplay thecontroversy despite frequent queries by local andDanish press. He added that he's "adjusting" tohis new digs...
Like carousers who do not want to know too much about what happened the night before, Americans tend to forget or downplay emotional binges like the idolization of MacArthur. I was talking with a young journalist at the height of 1987's spasm of "Olliemania," when Oliver North seemed -- to some -- to be speaking truth to power. The reporter said he had never seen anything like it -- and I tried to contrast the few weeks of Ollie with the months of MacArthur's heroization. There are many cases in America's recent past in which people have turned from...
...CENSUS BUREAU HAS BEEN QUITE SENSITIVE LATELY to the question of how it releases reports, even going so far as to downplay the release of potentially embarrassing data. So more than a few eyebrows rose when the bureau went out of its way to make news organizations aware of some fresh statistics that could prove embarrassing to Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton. Census officials faxed to reporters rankings of states and their various measures of social and economic well-being, in which Arkansas ranked poorly. The bureau denies any political motives. It's not as if the information was surprising...
...trying to downplay the importance of good grass. What would a Yard be without it? And green grass means healthy things growing, right? Warm weather, flowers, baseball, the Olympics, graduation...