pillars

Discipline, respect and enthusiasm are the pillars of Foster’s culture, though the first of the three hasn’t quite taken hold.

“With his added NFL experience,” Foster said at the time of Miller’s hiring, “I feel there is no one better to uphold our pillars while preparing the Bruins for Big Ten Conference play and beyond.”

Foster said he’s benched players after receiving unsportsmanlike conduct penalties this season as part of his efforts to enforce discipline, one of the three pillars of the culture he is trying to instill.

The pillars of American democracy have not just been under attack for the last four years, but for at least the last four decades and the present moment is a culmination of those strategies.

Mexican immigrants in the United States are also pillars of the Mexican economy, sending more than $60 billion annually in remittances back to their homeland.