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Elhauge and Tribe downplay their own role and the role of HLS in the election...
...downplay the Crimson's third consecutive Beanpot title because it was a tremendous accomplishment, but it was only one step in Harvard's journey back to the nation's elite...
...fewer than 2,000, compared to 180,000 in Britain. And yet across Europe, beef consumption has plunged 27% in the last three months; in Germany it has been cut in half. This is an epidemic propelled by fear, and governments aren't immune. Ridiculed for their attempts to downplay the threat last year, German authorities last week pledged to buy, slaughter and bury 400,000 cows in an effort to rid the country of the disease...
...Middle East today, people back home are worried about you. These days you cannot live here without a strategy to reassure concerned friends and family in America. After conversing with several people here, I have discovered that the most popular method of inducing loved ones to relax is to downplay the severity of the situation. People constantly tell the folks at home that life here is "not that bad." This trivializes the pain and suffering the Israelis and Palestinians are experiencing. If you have friends studying or working in this troubled region who tell you "it's not that...
Administrators downplay discipline and stress the protective aspects of the College's policy, framing restrictions on alcohol use as safeguards to stop students from drinking themselves to death. They emphasize the College's efforts to place students with problems into alcohol counseling...