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REAGAN: "((Grenada)) was a Soviet-Cuban colony, being readied as a military bastion to export terror and undermine democracy. We got there just in time...
...that great?" asks Dr. Edward M. Hundert, associate dean for student affairs at the medical school. The dean says the numbers should explode the myth that the medical school is a "bastion of white male culture...
...residents of Miami, it sharpened a passionate debate over Washington's response to the wave of U.S.-bound refugees. Long a solid bastion of conservative influence, the more than 1 million Cuban Americans in South Florida are torn over the wisdom of denying entry to the rafters, over President Clinton's refusal to negotiate with Castro, over the best approach to pry the Cuban leader from power...
Meanwhile, clandestine resistance cells are already operational in Carrefour, the vast slum in the capital city that remains a principal bastion of support for the exiled President. Plans have been made to place burning cars at key intersections, blocking any moves by the military to defend itself. Angry Haitians like 30-year-old Pierre, whose right arm is scarred and twisted from a fight with the police, are wooing restive elements of the army to join them when the U.S. helicopters come. Says he: "We sleep with one eye toward...
...often wanted to write the evaluating of the History department for The Crimson's Confidential Guide, but as almost professor in the American wing knows, I'm not good at deadlines. The Confi Guide has, year in and year out, proclaimed the department an isolated bastion of old-white-maleness, relucant to change and unwilling to tenure...