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...Reagan Administration has long maintained that the traditional family is a bastion in the battle against poverty. It contends that the dramatic addition of 7 million Americans to the ranks of the poor since 1979 is rooted in a cultural phenomenon: the increase of single-parent, female-headed households...
...served as a catalyst to get the issue [of racism] out of the closet," says Northeastern Law Professor Denise S. Carty-Bennia, adding that the incident sent "a loud and clear message that this is still the bastion of white male supremacy...
What is happening in the country long considered the only bastion of democracy in the Middle East? The institution created to protect the Jewish people is actually promoting discrimination against Jews. The religious parties are trying to transform Israel into a theocracy. Efforts toward peace are being stymied...
...sport's acknowledged master began knocking off the highest mountains in 1970, when he scaled Nanga Parbat (26,657 ft.) in the glacier-shrouded western bastion of the chain. Then he climbed Manaslu (26,781 ft.) in central Nepal and Pakistan's Gasherbrum I (26,470 ft.) with Peter Habeler, a longtime climbing partner. In 1978 Messner and Habeler, now 44, climbed oxygenless to the summit of Mount Everest (29,028 ft.), and the mountaineering world gasped. In 1979 Messner went back to the Pakistan-China border and conquered K2 (28,251 ft.), the world's second highest mountain...
...response to a questioner who said that the Reverend was a dogmatic teacher, Falwell defended Liberty University, which he founded. He said it was "a bastion of conservatism," adding, "You have a right to be at Harvard University which everyone knows is a bastion of liberalism...