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In another interrogation report, however, KSM downplays the significance of his relationship to Yousef in enabling him to meet with Bin Ladin.
The WP downplays the casualties as well, running its Bosnia story at the bottom of the front page, omitting mention of them in its headline--"Bosnian Serb's Backers Stone American Troops"--and not getting to them in the piece until the seventh paragraph.
He downplays the importance of arms control, stressing instead the need for non-proliferation, anti-missile systems, and the safe storage of existing nuclear weapons.
The AFI's list of all-time greats downplays the influence of credentialed taste-makers, cinema scholarship, and educated judgment.
He accuses Richardson both of crudeness (he sees sex as the meaning of every painting) and of whitewashing his subject (he downplays Picasso's misogyny): "Without the Continuing Saga of Pablo's Greatness, there's not much there, except some wonderful drawings and a lot of irritability."