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...press conference once O.J. Simpson identifies his wife’s real killer.) The allegations were not enough to affect the outcome of the election, but it was enough to make observers scratch their heads and wonder what had happened to the image of the Republican Party as a bastion of traditional family values and morality in private and public life...
...quick-to-condemn mogul who once ironically, or perhaps prophetically, charged: “Too many whites are getting away with drug use,” society should “send them up the river.” Even our own Harvard Salient—yet another bastion of morality—published an article in which the author cried that “enough is enough,” and invoked the generic plea that “because of his unwavering conservative stances, it seems the media cannot look past his mistakes...
...NEPC is the main wholesale market for Boston, so there’s a good chance last night’s dinner came from here. Said to be the port of entry for the majority of New England’s fruits and vegetables, it’s a bastion of healthiness for Boston, or at least a formidable defense against a mass outbreak of scurvy...
...Chirac doing most of the kissing up. After both receiving and relinquishing Mrs. Bush from his embraces, the French president landed a juicy European greeting on the First Lady’s hand. The New York Post, that bastion of journalistic integrity, characterized the affair with the sub-headline “Laura braves weasel kiss.” The First Lady’s reaction to Chirac’s affection was both priceless, and refreshingly symbolic of the current relationship between Bush’s America and Europe. It combined a puritanical disdain for the swarthy Frenchman?...
Alas, imagine my horror at learning that Winthrop, our last bastion of free and uninhibited dining, is no longer an open house. Another door closed in a first-year face. Another single tear. Another watery glass of cranberry juice and dollop of sandy low-fat cream cheese. Another chickwich. And another. And another...