Word: umbrellaism
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...although On Harvard Time is still nominally a part of HRTV, the program now functions autonomously. Skinner notes that “HRTV is more like the umbrella that helps everybody get their sea legs.” After initially helping get On Harvard Time off the ground through financial support, HRTV’s role has diminished as the show has taken...
...Harvard Law School student Aaron D. Chadbourne ’06, a former member of the College’s very own Undergraduate Council, spoke briefly to recruit Graduate Student Council members willing to serve as representatives on the Harvard Graduate Council, the “umbrella organization that represents all of the twelve graduate schools.” “Very competitive process we have here,” Brown said. He turned to the graduate student who now constituted one half of a committee. “We’ll find someone...
...trusts the blue-green palette, the gentle undulating of the creatures and the haunting buoyancy of Jo Hisaishi's score to establish the location with the waves of a watery wand. One little adventuress, known to her kin as Brunhild, escapes this seeming paradise, floating up under the umbrella-penumbra of a jellyfish. Nearing land, she gets her snout stuck in a jar, and a five-year-old boy on the rocks by the shore yanks her out. He is Sosuke (voiced by Hiroki Doi), and he decides to call his new pet Ponyo (Yuria Nara...
...Obeidi's band of citizen fighters and local watchmen, divisions of the U.S.-backed Awakening movement around Iraq, have been critical to the taming of the insurgent-infested areas since 2006. As a consequence, they have faced regular assassination attempts from militants aligned with al-Qaeda in Iraq, the umbrella organization for Sunni insurgents. Al-Obeidi said four of his men had been killed since the beginning of the year. And, just about a month after speaking with TIME, al-Obeidi himself was dead. On August 17, a suicide bomber walked up toward al-Obeidi and a team...
...Russia's very purpose in its "punishment" of Georgia has been to warn neighbors inclined to challenge Moscow from under a Western security umbrella that if a storm is provoked, that umbrella offers precious little protection. The conflict was never simply about Georgia and its restive minority regions; it was always about NATO, as well as the regional balance of power between Russia...