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...women were elected to top leadership roles on the Harvard Salient, the University’s conservative bi-monthly publication...
Although the Salient has historically had a small staff with few women in top positions, neither saw their achievement as a triumph for feminism...
...perhaps the most salient example of designer permeation of the most utilitarian products is the O-CEL-O hourglass-shaped sponge by 3M. Sales tripled in 1999, after the company eschewed square for curvaceous and added brightly colored patterns. Now 3M is putting concept-driven designs on its sponges. "Washing dishes is not something that's pleasurable, so putting a little bit of design into it is good," says Zaki Kamandy, a second-year student at New York City's Parsons School of Design, whose stylized spoons-knives-forks-and-bubbles print--inspired by the gaggle that always gets washed...
...Children appear to find the social and linguistic prestige of their immediate role models to be more salient and compelling than that of TV role models,” Vaux wrote. “Buffy may be cooler than the leader of the cheerleaders at your school. But Buffy is much less likely to make fun of you in front of your peers on the playground...
...center of last night’s council debate was a letter to the editor in last Monday’s issue of The Crimson, written by Gladden J. Pappin ’04, editor of the Harvard Salient, a conservative biweekly journal. In the letter, Pappin argued that the College should discipline students for certain sexual behaviors...