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...home, everybody is conservative and basically everyone is Christian too,” she says. From her first days at Harvard, Grizzle dove into activities that allowed her to promote these values: Harvard Right to Life (HRL), the Harvard Republican Club, the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship, and the Harvard Salient all count her as an active member. Grizzle might be best known for spearheading HRL’s highly controversial Elena campaign, a series of anti-abortion posters that pictured a developing fetus speaking as a young girl. The posters came under fire on house e-mail lists...
...preternatural poise. He already has the disquieting gift of lowering the temperature of any room he enters. He is armed, by birth and training, with courtly courtesy; it would be called charm, if he were human. These impeccable manners do their best to conceal two of the lad's salient traits: his contempt for people and his almost artistic curiosity in how he might hurt them...
...administrator of the UC and Petersen would be chief advocate. This, Gillis said during Thursday’s debate, would play to their relative strengths.Hwang, who has spent none of his allotted budget, according to Allen, has continuously called for the dismantling of the UC. Endorsed by The Harvard Salient, he has asked the UC to address why the council is universally “ignored and resented” by the student body.The campaigns will be out in full force for the next four days, until voting closes on Thursday. Although the weekend momentum has been important...
...meeting was touted as a crisis summit designed to set a new course for tackling Iraq's mounting violence, civil war or whatever one chooses to call it; the salient point is that Iraq has spun so dangerously out of control that existing policies appear to offer no way out of the mayhem. The pre-meeting atmosphere was clouded by the publication, in the New York Times, of a memo from National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley that questions Maliki's commitment and capability to take the steps the U.S. deems necessary to turn things around. The document sets...
...about the judiciary’s agenda relative to that of the public—the topic of the 60-page foreword he wrote for the current issue of the Law Review. Noting that Medicare, Social Security, fuel costs, taxes, and the war in Iraq are among the most salient political issues today, Schauer said that these “are all issues on which the Supreme Court has been largely invisible.” He noted that at the time of Brown v. Board of Education, the nation was preoccupied with communism and that at the time...