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Harvard, that ol' bastion of intellectualism, says it does not engage in that sort of thing. Harvard does admit to giving preference in admissions to athletes--something people here never seem to question--not for the sake of big-time sports (or organized barbarism, as some would say), but for diversity and the Greco-Roman ideal...
...This bastion of the old Confederacy has been so willing to re-elect incumbents that Congressman Trent Lott campaigned for the Senate by reminding voters of the seriousness of the occasion: "This is only the second time in 40 years that Mississippi has elected a ((new)) Senator." To replace Democrat John Stennis, 87, who is retiring after 41 years in the office, the smooth, natty Lott won a tight race against a contrastingly folksy Democratic Congressman, Wayne Dowdy. Lott's victory gives the state two G.O.P. Senators for the first time since Reconstruction...
...Those who have voted for Dukakis have voted for a self-proclaimed liberal," said David R. Ackley '91, co-chair of Harvard Students for Bush-Quayle. "They have put forth Harvard as a bastion of liberalism...
...image of the farmer: his supposed independence and self-sufficiency, taps a sympathetic vein among the urban public. They see farmers as the last bastion of the frontier spirit and American individualism. As one Bush strategist put it, the farmer is the "last vestige of American heroism, out there alone with God and the elements...
Offering one-year fellowships to Black South Africans is nothing but an attempt to quiet pro-divestment complaints and make Harvard appear a bastion of altruism...