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Harvard Square has beer more or less covered, although in this bastion of Puritanism the last ale to be found at any counter comes at two o'clock ante meridian--and alas, this is only possible at The Crimson Sports Grille and The Spaghetti Club, two establishments known neither for their good beer nor their puritanical behavior. The quainter of our pubs--Shay's, The Cellar, Grendel's and, for our yuppier compatriots, Grafton Street--all shut their taps at one in the morning...
...direct action group put up this week's posters which parodied final clubs with such phrases as "Support Your Local Bastion of Classist Patriarchal Elitism--Go to a Final Club Party...
Rubin came to high finance by way of the Yale law school, and practiced briefly before heading to Goldman Sachs & Co., where he ran the arbitrage department and, later, the entire firm. A Democratic fund raiser in Wall Street's Republican bastion, Rubin served as the first head of Clinton's National Economic Council before taking the top Treasury...
...College wants to be able to claim that this bastion of diversity provides a good educational experience, then it must be consistent in rising to the occasion by providing a more feasible and accessible way of sharing that diversity...
Recent events at the Kennedy School of Government confirm that this once-proud bastion of liberalism is succumbing to the national trend of conservative retrenchment. Almost as if mimicking President Clinton, the training ground for professional bureaucrats and policy junkies has abandoned its liberal foundations in search of a more "inclusive" public persona, or at least one which isn't so unappetizing to the likes of the blubbered blatherer Rush Limbaugh and the prostitute-cum-patriot Oliver North...