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Most Harvard students are already aware of the library’s more salient shortcomings: the place is heated like a poinsettia nursery and the reading rooms prematurely compel students into the very cubicles that will erode their souls after their emigration to the office. More subtle drawbacks include an Escherian array of staircases, and the Language Resource Center, the only place on this continent to still rely heavily on cassette tapes...
...survey of sculpture from Australia and the Netherlands in the Hague. "I liked the witty comments and a sort of devilish charm and provocative fun of not taking art too seriously," says Marie Jeanne de Rooij, curator of "De Overkant/Down Under." But like all good court jesters, Kesminas tells salient truths while poking fun-whether at art's over-reliance on theory in Paranoid (courtesy Black Sabbath), at the self-indulgence of Tracey Emin (to the tune of the Police's Roxanne) or at the preciousness of the German art scene (Children of Berlin, by way of Dire Straits' Sultans...
Even campus conservatives Julius D. Krein and Caleb L. Weatherl ’10, affiliated with the Harvard Salient and the Harvard Republican Club respectively, said that they were looking forward to listening to Clinton—arguably the most prominent Democrat in America today...
...that her views are views that would most advance the cause of women,” says conservative polymath Meghan E. Grizzle ’07, a former president of Harvard Right to Life, a former board member of the Harvard Republican Club, and a writer for The Harvard Salient. “In that respect, I would consider myself a feminist: I like to call myself a feminist when I’m around the more stereotypical description of a feminist, because I do strongly believe that my beliefs”—anti-abortion, pro-abstinence?...
Ryan M. McCaffrey ’07, editor of the Salient, says women in top positions are rare: Only a few females are listed in the masthead. “Men have always outnumbered women, there’s no question about that,” he says. “It’s just not something that women are interested in. They’re not interested in power, I don’t think. It seems almost unnatural for there to be an equal number of women in those positions...