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...Religious orders, women's centuries-old power bastion, are gradually disintegrating. The number of U.S. sisters, which reached a high of 180,015 in 1964, dropped to 99,337 this year, the lowest point since at least the 1940s. To survive, orders are seeking part-time women volunteers and considering offering the option of sisters' either taking short-term vows or joining for life...
Clearly, Harvard is no longer the Christian fortress of the past. But neither is it the bastion of atheism that some claim it to be. More than 350 years after the founding of the school, the tension between its sacred and secular sides has yet to be resolved...
Despite a sizable and perhaps growing political faction against the councillor, and despite acknowledgement by councillor and then-Mayor Alice K. Wolf that his dealing may be construed as "possible conflicts of interest," Walsh still maintains a substantial bastion of political support from the big business and Independent sectors...
...wimpy males, the "agonistic" feminist warhorses paw the ground and snort fire. But when Camille Paglia comes to town, they fall silent in hurt shock, too noble or too scared to reply. Or else they go whimpering to whimpering to Daddy for protection, "Daddy" is Harvard University, formerly a bastion of male arrogance and exclusiveness, now suddenly transformed into a monument of civility and scholarly courtesy...
Until the Soviet Union's collapse, the Kremlin tended to favor the Azeris in the conflict, largely because Azerbaijan was the last bastion of communist orthodoxy in the Caucasus. Soviet army and Interior Ministry troops alternately tried to keep the peace or assisted the Azeris in military operations. Though the Azeri government in Baku accuses Russia of helping Armenia, it is the Azeri fighters in the region who are far better equipped with Soviet military weaponry than their opponents...