Word: salients
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...bottom. There’s an allusion to the “seven hills,” presumably of Rome; a couple stark rebukes to capitalist greed (“We celebrate the golden cow / Praise the bloated bank account”); and an invocation of Babylon, whose most salient historical bullet-point is that its walls came tumbling down. These references all paint a picture of an America that’s ready to crumble.More of the same on “Gasoline,” where Crow, narrating a future oil shortage, takes a swing...
...Ahmadinejad; insistent on progress, they have begun to clamor and sadly, be repressed. Meanwhile, the president clings to his popular image as principled and righteous among the more religious majority. Even under the alien auspices of a theocracy, the similarities of the Iranian electoral system to our own are salient here today as ever...
...Several months later, HIS members grew upset after The Harvard Salient republished Danish cartoons that had sparked protests across the Muslim world for their parodies of the Prophet Muhammad...
...members criticized an e-mail sent to the Salient by Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd that warned that “some segments of the campus and surrounding communities may be sufficiently upset by the publication of the cartoons that they may become dangerous...
Living across from each other freshman year, the two of us quickly found that we agree on virtually nothing. One was the editor of The Harvard Salient, a conservative publication, the other a diehard Democrat with a taste for burgers, country music, and baseball. While we certainly do not agree on who the next president of the United States should be, we do agree that Roy T. Willey IV ’09 and Nicholas B. Snow ’09 are the change needed in the Undergraduate Council...