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...MEMBER of The Salient, I was dismayed by the appearance of Nicaraguan Contra Jorge Rosales at the Science Center on May 7, sponsored by campus conservatives. Not only does supporting the Contras violate truly conservative principles, but the raging debate over President Reagan's efforts to fund the Contras should be unnecessary. No conservative President properly mindful of what it means to be conservative would have ever sought the aid package...
...Republican team will consist of the club's president, Kris W. Kobach '88, and Gregory A. Dohi '87, editor-in-chief of the Salient which is a conservative campus publication. But members of the opposing SASC team will field an extra speaker at the 8 p.m. divestment showdown...
Indeed, if depiction of evil were the best way to point out that we should avoid evil, then The Crimson should fold and attempt to turn itself into the Salient or a party newspaper for the KKK, Playboy, the Nazis and every other evil in our society that we can think of. We should assault our readers with evil; we should distribute vile propaganda free to the doorstep of every undergraduate; we should use Square Deal tactics in pushing our viciousness on every passerby in the Square...
...Harvard Political Journalists of the Year Awards" were: Christopher J. Georges '86-'87 of North House and Brooklyn, NY; Michael W. Hirschorn '86 of Dunster House and New York, NY; and Thomas J. Winslow '87 of Eliot House and Cleveland, OH. Honorable mentions went to Hirschorn and to Harvard Salient Managing Editor Caleb Nelson '88 of Lowell House and Cleveland...
...Edwardian elite are given delightful cameo roles, and the prose has the appropriate drawing-room astringency: Shaw and Wilde might have been close friends "if they only had less in common." If this is a novel with an excess of surface, that was, after all, its subject's salient feature. The important part, as Wilde would insist, is that the thing glitter. And so it does...