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...officer of the Navy, Admiral Jeremy Boorda, promised to speed up plans to assign women to all surface vessels and perhaps even allow them aboard submarines, the Navy's last all-male bastion. "The goal is all ships; the goal is everything," commented Boorda, who also said a repeat of the Tailhook sexual-assault scandal "would simply not be tolerated...
...Boer people! We are fighters!" thundered Eugene Terreblanche, leader of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (A.W.B.), the bastion of white supremacists unwilling to accept South Africa's changing destiny. "I think there will be more explosions and more actions if the government ignores the just claim of my people who demand some land." The fiery rhetoric inspired some of the 300 khaki-clad men and pistol-packing women to rough up and then oust a black American reporter attending the otherwise desultory rally. The motive behind all the violence: a whites-only homeland...
Unfortunately, Archie Epps turned down my application for the Harvard Mediation Service because I "sounded like a pansy" and, for some reason, the Hasty Pudding Club, that legendary bastion of international diversity, never returns my phone calls. So I would have to search on my own, encountering the Other with nothing but my own wits and brawn...
...come to its campus. This logical and undesirable implication highlights and undesirable implication highlights the dangers of formulating and implementing speech codes. Speech guidelines at an institution of learning are especially worrisome since, in democratic societies, it is the academy which is supposed to serve as the leader and bastion of free speech...
...Vrioni castles have been destroyed; the Vrioni attitude has not. When the iron curtain cracked in Albania, the last bastion of communism in Eastern Europe, Holta Vrioni acted. "What motivated me was the suffering and the persecution that my family has seen all these years," she remembers. "I had this opportunity, coming from a well-educated family. I would see the difference between the East and the West of Europe. That made me angry because of the reality I was living...