Word: salients
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When Fox announced the plan in January 1977, he highlighted five salient problems with the system—the inequities between Houses’ locations and gender distributions, the unpopularity of the Quad Houses, the differences in housing and advising between first-years, some upperclass students’ distance from their Houses and unfair lottery procedures...
...Numbers is entertaining and full of suspense, it is too political. Starring Sandra Bullock as Cassie Mayweather, a character too engineered to seem realistic, the movie is a crime thriller about two boys who believe they have engineered the perfect murder. And without the cutthroat Mayweather’s salient intuition prompting her to suspect the boys, they most surely would have escaped...
...City,” and Krinsky herself, swept off the face of the Earth in a raging moral whirlwind of righteousness. Krinsky, however, treats her naysayers as almost an afterthought. She casually informed me that the conservative Yale Free Press (Yale’s answer to the Salient) had recently assessed her as “giving syphilis a bad name...
...Salient was nearly blanked by righthanded flamethrower Alex Sherman. After taking a 23-0 lead into the eighth inning, Sherman lost his bid for a shutout when senior Ross Douthat hit a two-run shot to (you guessed it) right field...
Second, the case for black reparations moves beyond the historical harm of slavery. The case for black reparations becomes even more salient because present-day African-Americans suffer from on-going injustice. To be sure, slavery anchors the claim to repair: it has been estimated that the present-day value of expropriated slave-labor ranges to trillions of dollars, depending the rate of interest. Importantly, the emancipated slaves were neither compensated for this toil, nor treated as equal citizens upon their emancipation. Instead, freed slaves and their descendants were subjected to the Jim Crow period of legalized discrimination and segregation...