Word: salients
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Other groups inhabiting Thayer basement are not living any more luxuriously than the Foundation—and have had to do just as much shuffling. Demon, a quarterly humor magazine, was forced to move out of the office it shared with the conservative journal the Salient into that of the liberal Perspective...
According to Rabia S. Belt ’01-’03, former managing editor of Perspective, the original arrangement was for Demon to share the Salient’s office space in exchange for the Salient being able to use the Demon’s computer equipment—but once the Salient got new computer equipment, Demon was asked to move...
...response of Harvard’s faculty to the attacks was phenomenal. With students ardently seeking answers about the terror attacks, we found that professors readily engaged undergraduates in discussing salient issues. Many faculty members served on panels that helped undergraduates discuss everything from the true tenets of Islam to the role of the Constitution with regard to enemy combatants...
...been some Americans--or longtime residents of the U.S.--connected to al-Qaeda. For years there have been rumors of Americans in the Afghan terrorist camps, and an American, originally from Georgia, is reported to have died in 1998 while fighting with Islamic militias in Kashmir. But with the salient exception of John Walker Lindh, a Taliban soldier captured in Afghanistan last year, most Americans connected with Islamic terrorism were born in Arab lands. Both the CIA and the State Department deny published reports that a number of Americans were arrested in Pakistan last week, though Pakistani officials insist they...
...What I have made clear to each of the schools is that this is so salient and large an opportunity that, while we have not made any decision about how [the land] will be used, all major planning decisions from this point forward will have to contemplate how they will work out under different scenarios for Allston,” Summers said last summer...