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...always been fascinated by what makes people believe so strongly in something that can’t be proven,” said Megan E. Camm ’07. “[Pinker] provided compelling refutations of some of the most salient issues...
...last Boston performance of "The Big Parade" takes place tonight, and its departure throws into more salient relief one of the most interesting evidences of what is without doubt a sociological phenomenon of no small significance. That attitude of the American public toward the idea of war which is revealed by the success of such a film is one of the most auspicious auguries of the future meanings of the word peace...
...Crimson returns to action next weekend at the Junior Goodwill Games against Trinidad and Tobago, known ’round the Yard as the Harvard Salient...
...less amusing, question of whether homosexuality is, as the Los Angeles Times asked poll respondents this past week, “against God’s will.” (Six in 10 said it was). To use Harvard terms to describe this finding might yield, as one contrarian Salient editor emeritus put it in a Salient e-mail list posting, a headline along the lines of: “Poll: Most Americans are anti-gay bigots...
Student magazines, the center of the past weeks’ controversy, represent an entirely different category. The office of Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 officially recognizes 26 student publications on campus. They cover a wide range of subjects: from the politically charged Salient, Perspective and the Harvard Political Review; to the culturally oriented Harvard Asia-Pacific Review, Zalacain, Diversity and Distinction and Yisei; to light-hearted humor magazines like SATIRE V, Swift and The Lampoon...