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But complaints are downplayed because "the building's heart is in the right place" (Herbert Muschamp, the New York Times ).
The Clinton administration downplayed the dispute, saying 1) no one expected a breakthrough in the talks' first round; and 2) the difficulties show that "the two sides [are] getting into the knotty issues."
A separate piece reviews a new collection of Ellison short stories, praising Ellison's conviction that blacks had "a degree of freedom" despite the confines of American racism, freedom that black "protest" writers (Toni Morrison, Richard Wright) have unfortunately downplayed.
In particular, the pollsters charge that PROMO downplayed the extent to which respondents' fear of crime was based on the experience of crime--53 percent of those polled had said that they or someone they loved had been the victim of a crime.
Yet, the New England Journal of Medicine downplayed the risks at the time.