Word: salients
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...editor of the oft-maligned conservative newspaper The Harvard Salient, and author of a weekly column in The Crimson, Douthat didn’t change his tune upon arrival at Harvard. Not one to shy away from controversy, Douthat writes over 3000 words of copy each week, rallying against almost every keystone of the Harvard liberal ideology, ranging from the living wage to homosexuality. Douthat has even claimed that the Academy Awards are the product of “left of left wing politics”, an accusation that suggests he garners more than a little mischievous pleasure from...
...spit and tears. The most salient moment in the campaign for Taiwan's legislative elections last Saturday?a contest the local press ultimately dubbed the "saliva war"?came when the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) issued an official press release in which it remarked, without elaborating, that "23 million Taiwanese are wiping the DPP's ass." Candidates from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party were not the only ones splashed with vitriol. At one time or another, negative campaigning and personal attacks sent members of each of Taiwan's four major parties to their knees, weeping. Or at least they...
Britney Spears possesses exactly two salient points and one asset worth discussing. She is perhaps not unique in Hollywood in this respect, but if her own chit-chat is to be believed, her latest album, Britney, is the ambitious product of her growing maturity and artistic integrity. Spears would have us believe that her burgeoning sexuality is part of a critically respected, yet popularly titillating career path dominated by Madonna for two decades. While certainly she deserves credit for setting such lofty goals, Britney falls so far short of its purported artistic achievement that it could well mark the defining...
...even not-so-small) grievances can be aired in the most blatant and overwrought manner imaginable, primarily through puppet caricature, for laughs. Thus grievances are identified, magnified and laughed at before they are able to create real and significant resentment, and the department is alerted to the most salient shortcomings that grad students perceive both in their education and in the atmosphere of the department. And all of this packaged in the form of comedic entertainment...
...left is a row of farmhouse walls scarred by shrapnel and bullets. To our right, in the fading light, an empty expanse of ground stretches to Taliban positions 600 m distant. Both sides of the road are heavily mined. The road itself is totally exposed. "We're in a salient out here," says Allah Mahmad, who defends the ruins ahead. "We've got Talibs and Arabs to the left flank, the right flank and out front. For the past two years they've hit us with everything they've got. We've lost a lot of people...