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...article in The Harvard Crimson called Harvard Yard a “male bastion for the past 335 years...
Although Soviet critics viewed Harvard as a bastion of right-wing militarism, many in America worried about its spiritual collapse under a socialist threat...
...Likewise, in Hong Kong?never a bastion of shareholders' rights?minority investors are complaining about rough treatment at corporate hands. In April, Boto International, one of the territory's many publicly traded but family-controlled companies, announced plans to sell its manufacturing operations. The buyer? An entity co-owned by Boto's own chairman Michael Kao Cheung-chong and by Carlyle Group, a $13 billion U.S. private investment firm that boasts heavyweight advisors such as former U.S. President George Bush Sr. Unfortunately for outsiders holding Boto stock, manufacturing is the only part of the company that makes money...
...were still divided. At least five key ISI operatives?some retired, some active?stayed on to help their Taliban comrades prepare defenses in Kandahar against the Americans. None has been punished for this disobedience. And in New Delhi, Indian intelligence agents insist that during the battle for the Taliban bastion of Kunduz, Musharraf persuaded the U.S. to allow Pakistani C-130 planes to airlift out between 300 to 1,000 of its pro-Taliban fighters before American jets poured fire onto the northern Afghan town. Both Washington and Islamabad deny this happened. What is well documented is that even halfway...
While Spaepen describes the artistic quality of her undergraduate House, others had strikingly different experiences in their Houses before randomization —from the athletic Mather to Eliot, remembered by some as a bastion of elitism...