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...battle against youth violence can't be won in Omaha, which has an unemployment rate of only 3.3%, the rest of the nation is in for trouble. So far that battle is being lost. On any Saturday night, Omaha's police radio betrays the city's image as a bastion of conservative heartland values: "Caller reports two youths with guns in a parking lot . . . Anonymous caller reports shots in her neighborhood . . . Drive-by shooting reported . . . Officer reports at least 10 shots . . . One young male wounded by gunfire...
...doubt there are plenty of other clubs, plenty of other dance floors for Boston's full-time residents to crowd. But Kenmore, which depended on Narcissus as a bastion against the inevitable march of Harvard squareization, just lost another battle...
Twenty-two years after Harvard and Radcliffe agreed to merge, the question remains: Are women still second-class citizens on a campus which for almost three centuries was the bastion of a patriarchal society? Or do women now have the same opportunity to succeed and lead their classmates...
...change is difficult to notice at first. Activism during recent election campaigns, and membership in liberal student groups, seems to support the image of Harvard as a liberal bastion...
Unfortunately, by branding General Powell as a bastion of "intolerance and homophobia," that is exactly what Powell's critics are doing--to hell with what he's accomplished and what he means to everyone else in the community. They are saying that General Powell's presence acts as an affront to homosexuals more than it does as a source of pride and admiration especially, but not exclusively, for Blacks at Harvard. Well, that's an impossible claim to make. Furthermore, I consider it an egregious error to discount every positive contribution a man has made because one disagrees with...