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...that the reformers are wrong about Augusta. It's clear that the place is a bastion of Southern-fried phony gentility that badly needs reform. Augusta did not accept its first black member until 1990, after an outcry about the whites-only membership of many country clubs compelled the major pro-golf association to promise that no tournament would be played at courses that practice racial discrimination...
...loses the Taipei mayoral race, they lose all Taiwan,” said Chen, a fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. “This is the last bastion for KMT to fight...
...Even the proudest patriot will admit that India's boast of being a bastion of live-and-let-live harmony has always been something of a lie. Muslim frustration at discrimination and Hindu resentment of governmental assistance to minorities explode every few years in violence. But as the March riots raged on for weeks in Gujarat, they provoked particular alarm. While human-rights groups demanded Modi be tried for genocide, Hindu political parties, cultural groups and hordes of street demonstrators celebrated him as India's great defender. From a political nobody, Modi was catapulted into the international limelight...
Hong Kong prides itself on being a bastion of laissez-faire commerce. But one of the pillars of the local economy?the real estate market?has long been a rigged game. The government, which owns most of the land, regulates the supply of commercial building lots through land auctions and also produces subsidized housing for the masses...
Given the North End’s reputation as a bastion of la cucina italiana, it’s peculiar that the most “Italian” restaurant in Boston is found not in this corner of the city, but in a sleek space overlooking Boston Common. And it’s even stranger that the guiding light in the kitchen is not a classically trained chef from the Old World, but an Irish girl raised in the projects of Southie...