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...We’re trying to articulate a case for Ivy League Republicanism,” says Brian J. Bolduc ’10, an HRC member and the editor of the Harvard Salient. “What the HRC has done is—they’re not conceding certain things to liberals. They’re just re-branding and presenting in a better fashion—one that will make you want to listen to them...
...Weathermen" implied that Bill Ayers' terroristic activity was ancient history and that he reformed his ways long before his relationship with Obama [Oct. 20]. Quite the contrary: in 2001, Ayers said of his domestic bombings that he felt his group didn't do enough. Not to report this salient fact was misleading and biased. Andy Horvath, ELVERSON...
...this issue just two years ago, when she made it clear that she was concerned about the Harvard Salient’s publication of Danish cartoons considered offensive by many in the Muslim community. According to an e-mail from Dean Kidd provided by an editor of the Salient, Dean Kidd expressed her concern that “some segments of the campus and surrounding communities” might become “dangerous” in response to the publication of the cartoons. This point that was perceived by many as being inherently distrustful of Harvard?...
...Barron compared the hypothetical reactions of one investor who had experienced a significant downturn in the distant past with a new investor who hears about the downturn as part of a set of information. “Both people would obviously have some concern, but this information is more salient for the new investor who receives a description of the event,” Barron said. “For the investor who experienced this in the past, it’s more important that since then, things have been better.” As for why people place greater...
...Policymakers, developmental economists, and international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) would be wise to note the Planeteers’ two most salient lessons. First, the human race has never been in harmony with nor entirely an enemy of nature, but rather has oscillated somewhere in between. We are too weak to forgo exercising power over other life forms, but strong enough not to be indifferent. The second lesson, trite as it may seem, is that human ingenuity and creative collaboration can overcome problems of exploitation and steer a sustainable cultivation of the planet...