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...when considered closely, the media's argument still fails to persuade. The salient feature for Kennedy in 1960 was more likely dead voters in Chicago than intrepid youths casting their ballots. Florida is also swampy ground on which to place a soapbox. One vote in this election made no more difference than in 1960 because not all ballots were counted. This is not partisan rhetoric. Americans learned that in national elections large numbers of ballots are discarded or incorrectly tallied. Indeed, college students' frequent voting method, absentee ballots, are not opened in many towns unless the number of them...
...moment the most salient characteristic in human society is our infatuation with science. Yes, only infatuated, for we have not exchanged vows, we haven't committed to science "till death do us part." We have a puppy love; we like science because it gives us shiny things. Case in point: well over half of American adults do not believe that the human species descended from earlier forms of animal life, and yet nearly everyone has ridden in a vehicle powered by internal combustion...
Traditionally, the assassination of an autocratic president brings the fear of a power vacuum. Less so in the Congo, for the simple reason that the capital has long since ceased to be the epicenter of power. And that may be the salient fact determining the future of a country that has known little else but the ravages of colonialism, despotism and war for more than a century...
...last salient point of difference between electoral systems north and south of the border is the length of election campaigns. While Americans have been subject to Bush's poor pronunciation and Gore's banal wardrobe for well over a year, Canadians have had little over a month to contemplate their political future. For Canadians at Harvard, this might have been just long enough to hear that an election is happening...
Supporters argued that the incidents that prompted the challenge grant were too old to be salient to students anymore...