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...Robert Dole is, to put it bluntly, all over the map. The Kansas Senator has at various points supported both Senate Democrats and the Administration on trade while also aggressively promoting subsidies for agricultural exports. Trade is an issue for Republicans, but among Democrats it could emerge as the salient issue, the one that helps sort out the crowded field, especially given Iowa's distressed farm economy. The difference is that second-tier candidates are all vying for the support of organized labor, which is unflinching in its protectionist fervor. That is why Gephardt stands to gain from the trade...
...other salient factor for a senior bar is people. With the exception of one party in Adams House last week, senior bars are crowded. Unless you're 6'3"--which I'm not, that's why I make friends who are--you might have difficulty getting through all the people to the beer...
...history," writes Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. in The Cycles of History. Emerson observed that "the two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and the party of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made . . . Innovation is the salient energy; Conservatism the pause on the last movement." But that can be tricky. Reagan in his way was no conservative and was something of an innovator, who tried, with limited success, to reverse deep-rooted Government traditions going back to the New Deal. In any case, Emerson also observed that...
...final clubs are vestiges of a Harvard which should have passed more than a generation ago. The University seems to be truly committed to making merit rather than money the salient factor in determining admission. Two-thirds of today's undergraduates, for instance, receive some form of financial...
...style of coiffure first made popular by the powerful men who control the economy, press, and official bureaucracy of this nation. The story goes that these men could not wear their hair too long or else it would fall in the soup at exclusive dining clubs they attended. The salient features of this hairdo is that it reveals enough of the forehead to make its wearer look bookish, but not so much that people think he's bald...