Word: salients
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...think what you’ll need to see is the parties adapting to the new issues people find salient,” said Eric P. Lesser ’07, president of the Harvard College Democrats. “There is a hesitance from people to see a specific religion invoked but a desire for policies to be grounded in broader moral values...
This makes the issue of manliness all the more salient because the gender-neutral society tends to dismiss it as incompatible with its ideals. Mansfield warns that male nature—the product of eons of evolution—cannot be put aside in a single generation. Moreover, he makes the case that manliness is worth keeping around for the good that it produces...
...hefty sum. But might his ties to the Arab world affect this gift?” The implication is that by accepting a gift for Islamic studies, Harvard may become beholden to the wrong sorts of people—perhaps even somehow furthering the cause of terrorism. The Harvard Salient, which is funded by the “conservative” lobby and eschews journalistic neutrality, mocks the stated purpose of the gift to promote better understanding of Islam as “blithe and childish,” saying, “If Harvard shares the Prince?...
...Duke and schools like it (i.e. Harvard) are not supposed to have problems like this, and this scenario forces everyone to evaluate the chance that such an event could occur on our own campus.There are many similarities between the two schools that make this question even more salient. Both are elite private schools, both enroll students primarily from outside of the state, and both have significant town-gown issues.But even more important than these more superficial similarities is the shared thread of privilege at both schools. Duke and Harvard students share a rare level of academic and financial privilege...
...cartoons—originally published by Jyllands-Posten, a Danish newspaper—resulted in world-wide riots by Muslims, some of which turned violent. Newspapers across France and Europe reprinted the cartoons in support of the freedom of the press. Four of those cartoons appeared in The Harvard Salient on Feb. 8. In the editor’s note that accompanied the cartoons, Gorton wrote that his decision to republish them was meant to inform readers. “By refusing to run the cartoons, Americans have no idea how ‘offensive’ they...