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...Perhaps the most salient example is the wildly popular Molson Canadian advertising campaign of 2000. Joe Canadian stands in front of a large audience and proceeds to tell us why he’s not American: he knows that Canada has a population of more than three (even if you're not counting the beavers or the polar bears), he proudly sews his own flag on his backpack and, most importantly, it's pronounced “zed, not zee, zed!” The “Molson rant” became so popular that the actor portraying...
...panel was comprised of Professors Michael J. Sandel and Pedro Noguera, New York Times columnist J. Anthony Lewis '48, a Crimson editor, and representatives of BSA, Vietnamese Students Association, Chinese Students Association (CSA), The Harvard Salient and The Crimson...
...Ross G. Douthat '01, editor of the Salient, agreed with Lewis...
...hope you decide to read The Crimson in part because you have faith in our ability to present a comprehensive portrait of Harvard life. It is sometimes hard to tell how well we are doing that job. Aside from the occasional snap in the Independent or the Salient, few voices exist to hold The Crimson accountable. The Crimson, as an influential interest at Harvard, deserves scrutiny. Internal criticism must suffice as the first line of defense against sins of omission, commission and malpractice. Happily, the debates inside 14 Plympton Street are usually rich...
...Park Dietz, a forensic psychiatrist who has interviewed numerous school shooters, says they tend to have in common "some degree of depression, considerable anger, access to weapons that they aren't ready to have, and a role model salient in their memory. So far," he told a TIME reporter, "it's always been a mass murderer who has been given ample coverage in your magazine." Describing his pre-rampage mind-set, Solomon once wrote, "I felt the next thing left to release my anger would be through violence. I had just gotten the idea from the shooting at Columbine High...