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Allowing them to commingle with your heralded patrons threatens to upend the fundamental values upon which this University was built. When these ruffians invade, with their disc jockeys and general enthusiasm for life, our last bastion of civilized society will sadly cease to exist...
...Back in town, the Zona Rosa remains a bastion of affluent indulgence. At Xoco Puro Chocolate, tel: (57-1) 622 0443, for instance, there are two dozen varieties of chocolates created entirely from native fruit and spices; at Club Colombia, tel: (57-1) 249 5681, smart versions of local classics such as corn empanadas or chicken-and-potato soup are served in a sprawling, renovated mansion. For postprandial diversions, check out the campy Mai Lirol Darlin, tel: (57-1) 236 5846, or the gay, electro-pop Blues Bar, tel: (57-1) 616 7126 - both are filled with well-heeled, cocktail...
...course, I mean nerds. Stereotyped as convention-going, pocket-protector-wearing, chess-playing, infrequently-showering types, nerds are one of our society’s most ridiculed groups. And, for a university with an international reputation as a bastion of intellectualism, Harvard is startlingly devoid of them...
...abundance of industries and multitude of talents in the workforce should make California a bastion of job creation and security. As a matter of fact, the state is just the opposite of that...
...displaying profane images of the dead in the same way that our enemies often parade around their captured and killed. The Obama administration should take the changes they have made to this ban even further. Renouncing all restrictions on the respectful photography of military caskets will tear down a bastion of the repression of free press. It will allow the American public to understand the war in a real and reverential manner, and it will grant our soldiers the honor and dignity that their ultimate sacrifice deserves...