Word: salients
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...most salient offenses of the Bush administration has been its blatant abuse of the balance of power between the branches of government. Bush has repeatedly tried to undermine the Congressional power through his use of signing statements—written pronouncements effectively allowing the executive branch to ignore parts of legislation. A Pulitzer Prize-winning exposé by Charles C. Savage ’98 in The Boston Globe uncovered that Bush had claimed the authority to ignore more than 750 laws enacted between 2001 and 2006—laws regulating everything from affirmative action to torture...
...comfort the faithful, but they won't convert anyone who hasn't already caught the Milton bug. Nigel Smith wants to engender a fandemic. In a new book, Is Milton Better Than Shakespeare?, he sets out to convince "as general a public as possible" that Milton is the "more salient and important" of these literary giants...
...unique position to serve as ambassadors of environmental awareness to our peers and the community at large. Although its students hail from across the country and around the world, Harvard is not an isolated entity. In this focus, we have highlight environmental issues that are salient at Harvard, and in Boston and Massachusetts...
...excellent example for prospective applicants everywhere. Wu-Tang lyrics are filled with culturally astute allusions, perfect for Harvard eggheads (i.e., “Socrates’ philosophies and hypotheses / Can’t define how I be droppin’ these mockeries”). Other verses address issues salient to Harvard students, like the Mather residents who unfortunately discovered their house is located in a school zone after being busted with 16 bags of psilocybin mushrooms (Ghostface Killah’s advice: “If you sell drugs in the school zone...
...fields of social psychology and economics. “We did not anticipate a response to our work and certainly did not expect to be talking about it 35 years later,” Kahneman said, in reference to his work on rapid judgments based on available and salient information, which he began in 1969. Economics professor David I. Laibson ’88 provided post-lecture commentary, describing the major impact of Kahneman and other psychologists on the field of economics. To prove his point, Laibson presented a 2006 issue of The Economist with a cover story...