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...widespread hostility toward the Cubans from this powerful group. That especially startles the Latins, who point out that it was not so long ago that signs outside of Florida hotels reading "No dogs, no Jews allowed" were still standing. Even today there are restricted clubs on Miami Beach, the bastion of Florida Judaism...
...save our season seems destined to be aborted. For the record, the Boston Red Sox will probably close out their schedule May 22 in Toronto against the Blue Jays, who will be struggling for their first American League East crown. If the Jays succeed, at least one newfound bastion of baseball will be able to while away the summer basking in glory...
...birth of Mugabe's Zimbabwe has stimulated a new debate in neighboring South Africa, the continent's last bastion of white minority rule. South African leaders now face mounting pressure both from within and without to dismantle apartheid and give the country's 19 million blacks a share of political power. One sign of the assertive new black mood is a nationwide campaign to free jailed Nationalist Leader Nelson Mandela, president of the outlawed African National Congress (ANC). Even some progovernment Afrikaans newspapers and business leaders have joined with blacks in arguing that the government must negotiate...
Bambach also stresses that she and her co-workers will step up their effort to disprove critics' claims that the K-School is not concerned about affirmative action. She says that "to a minority student this place could look like a white male bastion--this situation is more a matter of appearance than intent or policy," and adds that affirmative action policies "are not different at the two schools... We both stand to improve on implementation...
...Parker House in Boston. Their aim was a truly American magazine that would "concentrate the efforts of the best writers upon literature and politics, under the light of the highest morals." They succeeded admirably. In the 123 years since that founding dinner, the Atlantic Monthly has been a bastion of Yankee rectitude and high literary purpose...