Word: salients
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...Craig levied his student leadership to address the nation’s salient issue of the time: the Vietnam War. Along with prominent anti-war politician Allard K. Lowenstein, Craig helped organize a letter to President Lyndon B. Johnson from student leaders representing over 100 U.S. colleges that protested the war in Vietnam. They questioned the purpose, tactics, and media coverage of the war, along with the draft. The letter stirred up national attention after it appeared on the front-page of The New York Times in December...
Scholarship programs or financial aid incentives that encourage public service, while important, fail to send as clear and salient a message: that public service is a priority not only for the select few who are interested in or even aware of these programs, but also for every American citizen...
...overwhelming majority of police brutality cases referred by investigators are never formally prosecuted. The Oakland incident has engendered such protest because it confirms, with a live videotape, the suspicions many civilians have about the integrity of their police. This issue is salient around the country. Last year, New York City police officers frisked more than 500,000 people, although they arrested only 4 percent of them. Of those frisked, 80 percent were black or Latino...
...much more interested in “what’s in this winter” than pictures of our dicks.Harvard Medieval Review: In our scholarly opinion, you guys have some really trenchant material and observations. We don’t want to mess that up.Harvard Salient: Bros, you were totally the front runner for our free-wheeling prose until we discovered your comp process involved us getting a gay marriage and then being stoned nearly to death while we recite Obama’s convention speech and you scream racial epithets at us.The Crimson Arts Board: We would love...
...ethanol as critical to reducing U.S. dependence on foreign oil and combating climate change, through others criticize such subsidies as sops to states like Vilsack's Iowa, where ethanol is a key source of revenue.At the announcement last week, Vilsack said he would also prioritize rural growth, a particularly salient issue in the current economic climate...