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...stations were obliged to broadcast, Chavez suggested Globovision "take a tranquilizer, that they slow down, because if not, I'm going to slow them down." Globovision president Alberto Federico Ravell denied the accusations, saying they "won't change our editorial line" and calling his channel "the last bastion of independent television...
Instead of this knee-jerk reaction (“You totally called me racist! I am not racist! I have black friends!”), people would do well to entertain the possibility that, despite what we’d like to believe, Harvard is not a bastion of racial harmony, and we students are not pure and perfect in our unconscious beliefs. The problem might be more subtle than it used to be, but there’s still a long way to go before we reach real racial understanding...
...Gehrke was not available for comment yesterday. Meanwhile, talk about prospective masters has begun to fly around Currier.“There’s definitely talk. The students are very concerned. Especially now that Cole [Crittenden] is leaving. He was kind of like the last bastion of the Joe and Pat administration,” Martel said. Martel said Crittenden’s presence would be missed.“Cole is a very visible figure in Currier. He’s very much a part of Currier life and part of the Currier spirit,” Frances...
Their manifesto claims that New England is a “bastion of sanity in a nation of crazy,” and it ends by stating, “WHEREAS we believe in the socially progressive values espoused in the Northeast: we will advocate, through means violent and non-, for the secession of the New England states from these ostensibly United States of America...
...While this particular Facebook group appears to exist on a somewhat joking level, the entire gist of its premise permeates this area of the country so fervently that I’m pretty sure most New Englanders do profess to live in the last “bastion of sanity...