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Harvard it seems, is a bastion of red brickism...
Right, okay, put a check in the togetherness column...but what about sanity? What about some semblance of order? I mean, there I was, a lame excuse for an American flag (you know you're in a liberal bastion when wearing red, white and blue provokes the refrain, "Republican, right?") wandering through a packed Adams dining hall. Walking by the platform (a moon is dancing with Madonna's book (the dress is Mylar and she wears a $49.95 price tag. The music is pounding. There's a cage...and more costumes: a woman dressed as spider-woman, a guy dressed...
...called Cardinal's Guard was originally formed to protect the Russian legislative building after last year's failed coup. Yeltsin began calling the force an "illegal armed unit" after it was deployed at the offices of the newspaper Izvestia -- once the official Soviet mouthpiece but today a Yeltsin bastion whose ownership is at the center of a dispute among hard-line lawmakers, the government and the newspaper's own staff...
What I cannot agree with is The Crimson's continued insistance on characterizing Eliot House as a bastion of aristocratic prep school students. The combined effect of new house masters and non-ordered choice have begun to diversify Eliot. Reinforcing dying stereotypes does no one any good...
...final note on the rhetoric forced cultural mixing, especially timely this weekend. Long-established, homogenous groups are just bastion of discrimination waiting to be integrated? Then Columbus wasn't invading America--he was only trying to make it more culturally diverse. What? You say the indigenous culture was destroyed? Sorry, but it had to be. Columbus didn't feel at home...