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...Harvard, the self-proclaimed bastion of freedom and intellectual cultivation, the percentage of undergraduates registered to vote in Cambridge is quite dismal. Although large numbers of students no doubt are registered in their home communities, the smallness of the percentage registered to vote here is surprising...
...certainly does not live up to the standards of an institution that considers itself a bastion of idealism. "People apply a different standard to Harvard's commercial real estate operations than they would to a commercial developer," says Gladys Gifford of the Harvard Square Defense Fund...
...that no one at Harvard understood him. Razo's attorney plans to defend his client by arguing that the sophomore football player robbed from the rich to prove that he was still "a homeboy." The media loves the story: a latter day Robin Hood psychologically torn between attending the bastion of northeastern elitism, Harvard, and proving to his friends that he was true to his Hispanic roots...
...doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos." In an era when the Truman Doctrine has been supplanted by the Reagan Docrtrine, and our foreign policy seems to lurch from one knee-jerk reaction to communism to the next, we might best remember the Marshall Plan not as a bastion against the East, but as a foundation for the open development of the West. The broad strokes Secretary Marshall painted here four decades ago remain an object lesson in how to overcome the limits of ideology for a greater social good. They should also remind us that no policy guideline...
...list of colleges that have seen racial brawls this year is long. At Columbia University, long considered a bastion of student liberalism, a small-scale race riot broke out in March, when a Black and a white student hurled insults at each other and initiated a fight that involved at least a dozen students...