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...Harvard production.” The hard work of years past has endured, and HRDC has expanded and thrived on Harvard’s campus since its conception.The organization has undergone major changes in the past 100 years, moving from a small group of about 80 men to an umbrella organization that supports all theater companies at the university. While the Harvard Dramatic Club’s original purpose was to produce student-written works, Megan E. O’Keefe ’11, Community and Alumni Relations Coordinator for HRDC, says that today, she sees HRDC...
...meantime, the umbrella organization, Casas de la Esperanza, will continue its work in La Prusia, with the hopes that the Ceramics Micro-Enterprise Project will soon be able to further improve the living conditions of these people...
...Recently, Harvard took the symbolic step of unifying all its environmental efforts under the umbrella of the Office For Sustainability (OFS), which reports directly to Executive Vice President Edward C. Forst. OFS has the power to make sure that the university’s actions to encourage social embrace of environmentalism are in line with its words. The university should seize this momentum to inspire an environemtnal conscience in its community. The enduring mission after the Sustainability Celebration ought to be ensuring that this spotlight on environmental responsibility doesn?...
Although the sport's name is only 27 years old, the idea has been around ever since Lenormand took his first step off the building to test his parachute - a contraption resembling an oversized umbrella, which he had invented to help people escape burning buildings. On February 2, 1912, in much the same spirit, 35-year-old Frederick Law jumped off the Statue of Liberty's observation platform. He and his 100-pound parachute landed with a thud on Liberty Island's stone coping, a few yards from the water. A Russian man named Vladimir Ossovski performed a similar stunt...
...move, announced this week, will unite two government bodies that previously administered aid separately - the Foreign Ministry and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation - under the umbrella of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The revamped agency's annual budget of more than $10 billion puts it in the same league as the Asian Development Bank and the U.S. Agency for International Development. With the sagging economy, which many - including Prime Minister Taro Aso - say is already in recession, the reorganization doesn't necessarily mean more money, just a more efficent way at dispensing it. JICA expects the change...