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...America, the first nation to struggle against colonialism and win now remains as the last bastion holding on to colonies," he added...

Author: By Sarah A. Dolgonos, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Protest Naval Occupation of Vieques | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...make certain no one missed that point, the University made its announcement from the Manhattan Harvard Club, a bastion of the old guard with worn red carpets, dark wood panelling, deep leather chairs and dim lighting...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, | Title: Closing the Door on the Past | 10/26/1999 | See Source »

Describing himself as "a conservative coming to the bastion of liberalism," he said his semester at Harvard is "a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: IOP Fellows Boast Varied Career Backgrounds | 9/28/1999 | See Source »

...Delphic: This bastion of Greek culture has a wonderful library with both first edition works of prominent social theorists and a stunning collection of original Mapplethorpe prints. In fact, the clever allusion in the name to the Greek fount of Western society betrays (some would say obfuscates) an adherence to, as one club member argues, "an enlightenment ethos which struggles to maintain its integrity in a fractured post-modern society...

Author: By Nicholas J. Pinto and Matthew N. Stoller, S | Title: Shopping for Final Clubs | 9/28/1999 | See Source »

...Porsches come in chocolate brown? After 92 years as an employee-owned, privately held bastion of brown-suited Americana, UPS has heard the stock market?s siren song. The company will sell 10 percent of itself in a public offering later this year. And TIME Wall Street columnist Daniel Kadlec says this brown-paper package is going to go like hotcakes. "This is the most direct nondirect way to get invested in the Internet," he says. "Fed Ex stock has done very well as a way to cash in on the e-tailing boom through shipping ?- and UPS ships four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UPS Attempts to Deliver Itself a Bundle of Cash | 7/22/1999 | See Source »

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