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...finally, Kwong’s notion that the Republican Party and the HRC somehow represent the “conservative movement” is self-evidently absurd. It is a political party, prone to pragmatism, geared to elections; the HRC is the talk shop to The Salient’s think tank, and I’d like to think there is room for both...
Elsewhere, Kwong takes up use of the newly redeemed, fashionable word “queer” to describe the gay rights movement. Many people, even gay people, find that movement gaudy and prone to extremism, and this trend is what The Salient has occasionally endeavored to ridicule on its back page. Is the president of the HRC really going to take issue with The Salient for making fun of BGLTSA’s “Gaypril” panel on bondage...
...each House to plot strategy, jockey constantly to keep tabs on their opponents’ plans, with the help of dummy accounts, stolen passwords, and secretive informants. Open email lists and the Web site’s built-in private chat rooms have been dismissed as unsafe and prone to other House’s prying eyes...
Tech-savvy players immediately found novel ways to register multiple user accounts and increase their supply of armies, only to be brought to justice by honesty-prone teammates and, more often, by stubbornly vigilant rivals. We invalidated dozens of duplicate Leverett House accounts and unsubscribed more than 100 Adams House residents who had been signed up on a single computer—without their permission. “I did not sign up for whatever this is,” wrote one Adamsian. “If someone else is messing with my name/account that is very very very uncool...
...this view, people who are prone to migraine have a low threshold for activating the trigeminal nerve. Those who suffer only an occasional tension-type headache have a much higher threshold. Persistent treatment of acute attacks and prevention of additional ones may reset the brain's threshold point at a higher level...