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...debate expecting something that would be termed, by the average college student, a “shit-show.” I was ready to witness a veritable smackdown between the Harvard Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters’ Alliance (BGLTSA) and the College Democrats versus the Harvard Salient and the Catholic Students Association (CSA). What I got instead was a renewed faith in the culture of intellectual discourse on the college campus...
Last night’s debate might not have ordinarily made my cut. But I was lured to this event by two things. One was the fact that the topic of this debate was unequivocally salient for many members of the campus community. The other factor was the representative groups chosen. The Campus Political Society ought to be commended for not making the artificial distinction between political groups and lifestyle-oriented groups...
...Kennedy School of Government. He now serves as a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a non-partisan Washington think tank. In an interview with The Crimson on Monday, Gerson said a speechwriter often cannot predict which points the public and the news media will view as salient in any given speech. One such case was President Bush’s famed branding of North Korea, Iraq, and Iran as the “axis of evil” in his 2002 State of the Union Address, which sparked fierce political debate and cascades of criticism from Bush...
...clear about what it is. It’s just one side of Harvard that doesn’t get talked about, from our perspective,” he said. “But we hope that it’s a spark for more discussion. We want The Salient to have fun with this; we want people to be putting out their own responses to this.” The Salient is Harvard’s right-leaning weekly. John M. Sheffield ’09, vice-president of the Harvard Libertarian Forum who has explored the Disorientation Guide?...
...easy to dismiss Europe's current, curdled view of things American as something that will change over time. After all, it has done so before. Sure, the argument goes, the Bush Administration has alienated Europe - over Iraq and Guantánamo and global warming, to name but three salient issues - but so did Dwight Eisenhower when he pulled the plug on the British-French-Israeli invasion of Suez, Lyndon Johnson with the Vietnam War, Ronald Reagan when he deployed Pershing and cruise missiles despite Continent-wide protests. So maybe if we just wait a while, the ship will right itself...