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During Junior Parents Weekend in 1997, the Radcliffe Women’s Action Coalition, a task force of the Radcliffe Union of Students, launched a postering campaign against the final clubs. “Support Your Local Bastion of Classist Patriarchal Elitism—Go to a Final Club Party” read one apt sign...
Nearly 4,500 miles apart, this quaint center of Russian orthodoxy and America’s bastion of higher education are unlikely adversaries in a tug-of-war over tradition...
Green eyeshades are apparently in fashion at MTV: the bastion of video cool is putting a spreadsheet maven in charge of its international operations. Alex Ferrari, a 21-year finance-department veteran, will oversee the 96 channels outside the U.S. that account for 80% of MTV's viewers. "We've pretty much planted the flag everywhere that we can possibly be," he says. His challenge? Keeping pace with the 40% earnings growth his division registered last year and increasing the audience in developing markets such as India and China, where MTV recently launched a 24-hour channel...
George Bush could not have picked a better place to demonstrate the reach of his "shock and awe" money campaign. Headlining a luncheon at the Airport Marriott in the liberal Democratic bastion of San Francisco last Friday, the President politely thanked his supporters for their "hard-earned dollars" and walked away $1.6 million richer. But the backroom brigadier of Bush's financial blitz was quietly working the velvet rope at the ballroom's VIP section. Jack Oliver, a little-known 34-year-old from Missouri, is the man largely responsible for what is being heralded as the most formidable money...
...want a balanced budget," Howard Dean said, and the crowd at the Larkspur Ferry Terminal roared. "Imagine that!" Dean continued with a smile. "Here we are in Marin County, the last bastion of liberalism, hooting and hollering for a balanced budget." But the crowd wasn't really cheering for balanced books; it was hooting and hollering for Dean himself, who could come out foursquare for a healthy balanced diet and his supporters would find it deliriously rebellious. By recent Dean standards, the Larkspur assemblage - several hundred people - was meager. He's been greeted by 3,000 in Austin, Texas...