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...airport, reassuring herself that cultural sensitivity can only improve with proximity to Cambridge. She considers the flourishing “Foreign Cultures” curriculum and the impressive assembly of international academics. The unassuming student can’t help but convince herself that Harvard will be a bastion of international culture. But in truth, such a gross misjudgment would land you in academic probation...
...it’s no wonder so many of us are “poor.” And the frequently impoverished do not need to be told, I’m sure, that Crimson Cash exists as the ever-merciful last bastion of the desperate, who are prepared to limit their retail options in order to satiate their ever-famished desire to spend. I often wonder if my parents will eventually begin to question why it is I need so much money for “photocopying,” “printing?...
...things to start changing,” Mitchell recalls. “They wanted people there who were interested in what was happening in the culture, who could take the pulse and put that in the paper. The New York Times no longer pretends that we are the last bastion of mid-seventies thinking. We understand that people watch television and listen to these CDs, and go out, and don’t just go to theater all the time...
Bill Shack of Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition last year called NASCAR “the last bastion of white supremacy,” but the reverend distanced himself from those comments yesterday...
Some Americans might still be boycotting French products, but the feeling apparently isn't mutual. When Starbucks, that bastion of U.S. coffee-drinking culture, took on the original café society and opened its first venue in Paris last week, French customers cheerfully mingled with resident Americans to try out the signature lattes and frappuccinos. There are few concessions to French tastes: in a nation of diehard smokers, the company has boldly maintained its no-smoking rule. But in Time's highly caffeinated but unscientific poll of French patrons, the enthusiasm was almost surprising. "Bon" or even...