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...Science article claimed that mathematics is "the last bastion of male exclusivity in U.S. academics." The article reported that out of the top 10 math departments in the U.S., there are only four women professors with tenure. This does not adequately reflect the number of math Ph.D.s going to women today, the author wrote...
Revolution Books, Cambridge's best (and last) bastion of communist ideology, is in danger of succumbing to that most dreaded of capitalist institutions: the sales...
Even if the high command remains united, the army that Josip Broz Tito built during World War II threatens to fracture along the very ethnic lines that have created Yugoslavia's current miasma. Led by a cadre of generals who are the last bastion of hard-line communism in the country, the officer corps is predominantly Serbian, while the conscript ranks reflect the multiethnic complexion of the Yugoslav federation. Among the 2,300 troops captured by the Slovenes were hundreds who had turned themselves in, testimony to the lack of resolve within the ranks. Many of the troops fighting...
...court heads toward the conclusion of its latest term, it has finally completed its decades-long transformation from the liberal bastion of former Chief Justice Earl Warren into an aggressively conservative body -- one that seems poised to alter some of the major rulings of the past. To fellow conservatives, the right-wing majority may look like the cavalry galloping to the rescue. Battered liberals are more apt to see them as the ravaging horsemen of the Apocalypse. The only question is how far they will go in undoing the liberal legacy in such areas as church-state relations, individual liberties...
Final clubs are racist and elitist, to boot. If you liked the Harvard admissions office, you'll love a group of clubs that takes discrimination against Asian-Americans and favoritism for athletes and legacies to a new level. Final clubs are the last bastion of the old Harvard, a Harvard where men, where money talked loud and status even louder, where the unwashed masses were kept in their proper place and women were toys for young bachelors to play with...