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The paper downplays any leftover bitterness from the Falklands War or the 1986 World Cup match in which Argentina beat England on an illegal play: "Maybe during the war we were angry.
In a reefer, the Post downplays Bradley's health problem.
The AFI's list of all-time greats downplays the influence of credentialed taste-makers, cinema scholarship, and educated judgment.
In another interrogation report, however, KSM downplays the significance of his relationship to Yousef in enabling him to meet with Bin Ladin.
The LAT, WP, and the WSJ report that this could topple the current ruling coalition, but the NYT (which reefers the story) downplays the results, and the menace posed by the party and its leader, Joerg Haider.