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...corporate damage control, he agreed last week to spend $176 million to end the lawsuit filed by black employees whom Texaco has been stonewalling for years. The pact contains the most lucrative settlement ever of a U.S. discrimination case. If wholeheartedly implemented, it could transform Texaco from a bastion of bigotry to an oasis of equal opportunity. But Bijur deserves no applause for all this: he had no other choice...
Once upon a time the Palmetto State was a bastion of Democratism--of the 99,000 South Carolinians who voted for President in 1940, 96% were members of the old coalition party brought together by Franklin D. Roosevelt. As recently as 1976, Jimmy Carter won the state handily. But that was the last victory for a Democratic presidential candidate in South Carolina--the state gave George Bush his second highest percentage (after Mississippi) in the nation in 1992. A one-man symbol of this trend--and many others--is the state's 93-year-old Senior Senator Strom Thurmond...
...only fitting that Bob Dole's last minute attempts to save himself politically with a frenzied attack on Clintonian ethics should coincide with the staging of This Town. It is even more fitting that the show should be performed at that last bastion of liberalism, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. While This Town exposes the Washington culture that feeds what Mr. Dole sees as the White House scandal machine, its target is not the residents of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., but rather the pack of wolves officially known as the White House Press Corps. Much to the chagrin...
...There is a bastion of patriarchy on this campus," said women's committee member Lisa D. Graustein '97. "You can't expect things to move quickly...
Last we heard, you were leaning toward the Ivy bastion of free love in Providence. It's not a bad place, really, but could you really go to a school whose name is a color, and not a very pretty one at that...