Word: salients
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...since this figure is merely an average of the grants for everything from “real Mariachi suits” to dirty magazines, let’s compare and contrast some salient examples. H Bomb’s editors asked the council for $2,000. And the council obliged, giving them the full sum. Also this month, the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter applied for a $1,000 grant to buy a new washer/dryer set for their establishment. The Council’s grant to them? $400. The Coalition Against Sexual Violence was given $800 for its annual Take Back...
...violence in one situation considered a country’s duty and in another situation considered a terrorist act?” Subrin asks. “What could be more salient than that question today? Is there a more important question...
...fact that my tenure case didn’t get as far as University President Lawrence H. Summers’ desk also is not a salient point. The internal evaluation of candidates within HBS must have been done in the shadow of what the faculty believed would pass the ad hoc process and this would have disadvantaged me because of my managerial focus...
...Kavulla, since he has worked hard to become—I trust he’ll take this as a compliment—our own local Rush Limbaugh, by means of his attacks on women’s studies, affirmative action, etc. He is the publisher of the Harvard Salient, which is subsidized by radical-right sponsors, but does he really want to be seen in such company...
...China or the Lebanon-based Daily Star equals that entire country, we run the risk of ignoring individual voices and dissenting opinions. When we identify opinions by country alone, we raise up the nation-state above all else and ignore the fact that the writer’s most salient attribute might not be “Malaysian” or “Canadian” but rather “woman” or “worker” or “French-speaking” or “conservative...