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...enormous disruption - French unions represent less than 8% of the national workforce, and have seen their influence steadily wane over the years. Should they fail in their traditional "last stand" defense of the "special regime" pensions, they'd allow Sarkozy to storm what has been considered the unions' last bastion - and leave them with little ground left to defend...
...Located on the coast of western North Africa, Ceuta and Melilla have been part of Spain for more than four hundred years. But Morocco views the two cities as occupied territories - a last, insulting bastion of Spanish colonialism. Much as any gesture of British sovereignty in Gibraltar raises Spanish hackles, so do assertions of Spanish identity in North Africa irritate the Moroccans. Five years ago, for example, the two countries came to the brink of war when a band of Moroccan soldiers raised their national flag on a tiny, uninhabited island called Perejil that Spain considers its territory...
...felt an unexpected surge of ambition and desire. No, it wasn’t that delusional drive I feel at the beginning of each semester to get all my work done and get eight hours of sleep every night. I decided that I was going to march into that bastion of academic and intellectual freedom—the Core Office—and ask for two petition forms. Yes, I was angry about the fact that only three Historical Study-B courses (including departmental courses) are being offered this semester, but I decided that I would look past this grievance...
...Sandinistas had other ideas: After seizing power in the insurrection of 1979, they systematically dismantled the power of the oligarchy in subsequent years. The coup de grace, Nunez says, came last year when the Sandinistas formed a political alliance with the Catholic Church, the oligarchy's last institutional bastion...
Taken as a whole, what is most irksome about this T-shirt movement is that the level of dialogue is so low. If an institution such as Harvard cannot be a bastion for innovative thinking in the area of HIV/AIDS prevention and policy, then there is almost no hope for any other place. It’s up to us to escape the jargon and inaction that is ultimately tied to most “awareness-building” gimmicks. Otherwise, we’re wasting our time...