Word: salients
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Indeed, though the book is filled with fascinating research from key periods in the transition, all you really need to read to digest the most salient pieces of evidence is the last chapter, in which Shleifer introduces the systematic comparisons to other middle-income countries that tie together his “normal” thesis...
...baby—if you come to the Salient soda hour this weekend, the cops might arrest you. For stealing my heart...
Jesus the Pharisee has significant omissions: it does not touch on such salient matters as the Resurrection, the messiahship of Jesus, or the belief that his death atoned for the sins of all humanity. Lawrence Schiffman, a critic of the book who is a professor of Hebrew and Judaic studies at New York University, says that Falk "has bought a stereotype of the School of Shammai, who in reality were good Jews and good Pharisees." Schiffman believes that there will not be a scholarly acceptance of the book's thesis. He maintains that anti-Judaism in early Christian writings...
...must one even agree with Florida’s (and every other state’s) law that leaves it up to the spouse to make the life-or-death decision for a permanently incapacitated partner who has not left a living will specifying a course of action. The salient point is that states have a right to enact such statutes, and it is for the state to assume responsibility for their decisions and deal with the consequences. Congress and President Bush overstepped their bounds early Monday morning when they granted Schiavo’s parents—who fervently...
Douthat’s dissections of class dynamics in his first-year Straus entryway, ethnic self-segregation in the College, and the Hasty Pudding embezzlement scandal are entertaining and provocative, raising salient questions about the role of race and status at an ostensibly diverse university...