Word: umbrellaism
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...Harvard “Risk” game sponsored by the College Events Board (CEB) last spring. And Harvard students are likely to be active participants this time around too, according to Benjamin S. Decker ’08, the president of the Harvard Interactive Media Group, an umbrella organization that oversees the group responsible for managing the Harvard side of the tournament...
...doesn’t have an umbrella at all,” Humanities Center Director Homi K. Bhabha quipped, “because God protects...
...Many of those, like the Nokia Music Store, will become part of the umbrella Ovi Website that will mark the company's formal Internet coming out when it launches later this year. Ovi - the Finnish word for "door" - could even offer TV programs at some point. Vanjoki, who is in charge of marketing Ovi, says it will includes millions of songs from all 4 major record labels as well as from regional bands. Nokia has set a European price of 1 Euro for a tune, and of 10 Euros for a CD. It has not finalized U.K. pricing, but when...
...civic life by volunteering. Dr. Franklin would be impressed. The service movement itself began to take off in the 1980s, and today there is a renaissance of dynamic altruistic organizations in the U.S., from Teach for America to City Year to Senior Corps, many of them under the umbrella of AmeriCorps. In a 2002 poll, 70% of Americans thought universal service was a good idea. And while it's easy to sit back and say this to a pollster, the next President can harness the spirit of volunteerism that already exists and make it a permanent part of American culture...
...silence is being welcomed by gay activists. "I'll never complain about Democrats actually staying on message," said John Marble, communications director for Stonewall Democrats, a national gay, lesbian bi-sexual and transgender umbrella group for Democratic activists, in a telephone interview. "If anything, we'd like to see them use this opportunity to speak positively about gay families and gay Americans and be very clear that they support equal rights for the gay community...