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...most salient barometers of a culture's well-being is its treatment of women. It is no accident that the nations with the least respect for women's rights are also the most stagnant in every other way. There will be no future for the Middle East beyond the perpetuation of its present agonies unless there is a fundamental revolution in its approach to gender and power. EDWARD FOX Toronto...
...editor of the oft-maligned conservative newspaper The Harvard Salient, and author of a weekly column in The Crimson, Douthat didn’t change his tune upon arrival at Harvard. Not one to shy away from controversy, Douthat writes over 3000 words of copy each week, rallying against almost every keystone of the Harvard liberal ideology, ranging from the living wage to homosexuality. Douthat has even claimed that the Academy Awards are the product of “left of left wing politics”, an accusation that suggests he garners more than a little mischievous pleasure from...
...difficult socially, but it means you just have to make more of an effort to make friends, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing,” he says. He admits that “At parties, when people find out I am the editor the Salient, there are always lots of groans...but as a writer, I find being a conservative a liberating thing because you are the only one saying something from that viewpoint...
...spit and tears. The most salient moment in the campaign for Taiwan's legislative elections last Saturday?a contest the local press ultimately dubbed the "saliva war"?came when the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) issued an official press release in which it remarked, without elaborating, that "23 million Taiwanese are wiping the DPP's ass." Candidates from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party were not the only ones splashed with vitriol. At one time or another, negative campaigning and personal attacks sent members of each of Taiwan's four major parties to their knees, weeping. Or at least they...
Britney Spears possesses exactly two salient points and one asset worth discussing. She is perhaps not unique in Hollywood in this respect, but if her own chit-chat is to be believed, her latest album, Britney, is the ambitious product of her growing maturity and artistic integrity. Spears would have us believe that her burgeoning sexuality is part of a critically respected, yet popularly titillating career path dominated by Madonna for two decades. While certainly she deserves credit for setting such lofty goals, Britney falls so far short of its purported artistic achievement that it could well mark the defining...