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...depictions of the procedure. They fail, of course, to iterate that this procedure is used in less than one percent of abortion cases, is the safest method of second-trimester abortion and is often essential in protecting the life of the woman—clearly one of the more salient details in its defense...
...shining example of the power of pluralism with predictable negativity. These recent critiques are the same obvious, tired critiques that have been voiced again and again for as long as the U.N. has been in existence. They are the same critiques that are voiced in The Crimson and the Salient. But they are all critiques that fail to explain how the United Nations’ Development Program improved the lives of farmers in West Africa, or how U.N. peacekeepers quelled violence in East Timor, or how the U.N. won the Centennial Nobel Peace Prize...
...Board’s ability to dispense proper verdicts does not hinge on whether token students have membership within it. True change would be to demonstrate the true nature of the Ad Board’s processes—making salient reforms that remove its shroud of mystery...
...course, there is the most salient fact of all--that California as an electoral battleground, as in most other things, bears little resemblance to any other place on earth. But California's very uniqueness is the reason the state provides such a perfect Rorschach test for all those looking to convince themselves--and the rest of us--that they are the ideal candidate for the times. Just about everyone who is going to face the voters 13 months from now saw something positive in the results. There are myriad theories as to what the Arnold Effect means--and most...
...fact that he is a Republican makes his former bohemianism all the more salient. If such a pleasure-loving person were a Democrat, the Republican right would attack him with the venom they reserved for Clinton. Indeed, some Republican scolds like Alan Keyes chastised Schwarzenegger last week for being on the "evil side" in the culture wars. But when left-wing feminists tried the right's anti-Clinton tactics on Arnold--making much of the last-minute flurry of accusations of sexual misconduct--they sounded bitter and not a little hypocritical. In their scolding of the big-grinned Arnold, they...