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...game "invocations" (the contents of which were generally left up to the students). Before two local families filed a suit against the district in 1995, many schools allowed student-elected "chaplains" to lead prayers before the games; after the suit, however, the "invocations" were introduced in a bid to downplay the religious significance of the messages...
...little bit. "It's like going on a diet. You can lose most of the fat in the earliest stages; then it gets harder to lose more, or even retain the loss," says Eli Silverman, a criminal-justice professor at John Jay College. New York's police officials also downplay the significance of the change...
...they are on game nights. "The bad-boy thing doesn't bother me," he says. "People are going to think what they're going to think. The first impression of me is the incident with P.J. I understand why I have the image. I'm not trying to downplay the incident. It wasn't right. We make mistakes, and we've got to move...
...Math " of the 60's (except that it was, indeed, "the mathematicians" who pushed that misguided effort into our schools) and tangential about "textbooks." He is correct to call for continuing improvement in teacher education to support more challenging mathematics in every classroom, but wrong to downplay the central role of pedagogy in pre-college math classrooms...
Illustrator Elizabeth Dahlie's drawings clearly place Henrietta at Harvard, as she approaches the steps of Widener Library or walks the University president to his home by The Charles Hotel, but those closely involved with the book downplay its political implications...