Word: salients
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...Khalid M. Yasin ’07, president of the Harvard Islamic Society, said the Salient is failing to distinguish between the behavior of those who call themselves Muslims and the religion of Islam itself...
With riots raging across the Muslim world over the publication of Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, the editors of The Harvard Salient republished four of the cartoons in the paper’s Feb. 8 edition, angering a number of student groups...
...We’re obviously offended and angered by the Salient’s decision to publish the cartoons and their articles,” Yasin wrote in an e-mail last night. “It seems the Salient has decided to focus on Islam and I’m honestly concerned about the Islamophobic nature of their features...
...thing that we know about Bush and his fellow arch-conservatives, it’s that they only cry strict construction when it serves their purposes; still, pointing this out and “beating them at their own game” misses the larger and more salient point. Whether Bush’s expansion of powers—his reinterpretation of conventions regarding torture, the executive directive in question, among others—is technically legal or constitutional is secondary to whether it is right and in accordance with the American ideals, the American ethos. It is not. Listening...
...issue is particularly salient for the transgender community on campus, which has been publicly ridiculed for using gender-neutral pronouns like ze and hir and bringing speakers to campus who wax poetic about boydykes, genderqueers, and butch fairies. Pronouns and terminology that express personal identity are not just about semantics. Words are more than words. Ze and hir are necessary pronouns for people who may not identify in a binary structure of male and female, and calling these pronouns ridiculous fundamentally means that you think living outside of that binary is equally ridiculous. It’s not just...