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...British sources say Straw left talks with Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi concluding that Iran would remain neutral during any attack. On Friday former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said, "If the U.S. decides not to impose its own will, we are ready to join the antiterrorism coalition under the umbrella of the United Nations, despite our differences with the United States." Whether Iran acts on words like these depends on complex and competing forces within the country's political and religious élite. Since the attacks, many reformists have pushed to take advantage of the changed diplomatic landscape to improve...
...decision to apply for official student group status comes after more than a year of discussion with the University, which bought the Hasty Pudding building from the group’s graduate board, the Institute of 1770, in the spring of 2000. The Institute of 1770 is the umbrella oranization encompassing the Hasty Pudding Social Club, the Theatricals, the Krokodiloes and the Radcliffe Pitches...
...wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, many students, even those not directly affected by the events, have found themselves seeking counseling or simply someone to listen. While some took advantage of on-campus student groups or counseling provided under the umbrella of the University, other students went to University Health Services (UHS) to benefit from their support services...
...nonmilitary chemical attack ever, by the Aum Shinrikyo cult in Tokyo in 1995, killed only a dozen people. One reason is that the delivery method was crude: cultists dropped plastic bags of sarin (smuggled in lunch boxes and soft-drink containers) on a subway platform and pierced them with umbrella tips. Also the amounts were relatively small. Says Smithson: "Any bozo can make a chemical agent in a beaker, but producing tons and tons is difficult." Aum Shinrikyo tried to make the stuff in bulk, recruiting scientists and spending at least $10 million, but it failed...
...proposals much like the ones he just introduced were defeated in the House by Barr and Michigan's John Conyers Jr., the liberals' liberal. It was a strange-bedfellows alliance that has come back to life. This time, more than 150 organizations from left and right have organized an umbrella group, In Defense of Freedom, that may be the first umbrella that Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum has ever shared with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. As head of Americans for Tax Reform, Grover Norquist is ordinarily one of Washington's most high-profile conservative activists...