Word: umbrellaism
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...alone the preceding 40-year struggle against the Soviet system during which the survival of a free Europe depended upon an alliance with the U.S. - something their parents felt in their bones even if they disliked particular U.S. policies. The youngsters' professors might teach that the American nuclear umbrella provided the strategic framework enabling France and Germany to stop trying to annihilate each other and the European Union to take root and prosper; their grandparents might remember G.I.s bearing nylons and Hershey bars. I have seen the power of such sentiments myself. When I was a high school exchange student...
...Harvard. The newly opened Harvard College Women’s Center, and the connected offices of the Ann Radcliffe Trust, are the long-awaited products of those calls for support. Located in the refurbished Canaday B basement, the Women’s Center is designed to serve as an umbrella organization that will “serve the needs of student organizations on campus, particularly but not exclusively the groups that consider women to be a focus area,” Director Susan B. Marine told The Crimson last week. For many on this campus, however, the semantics...
...Modeled after the Harvard Foundation for Race and Intercultural Relations, the women’s center serves as an umbrella organization that provides institutional and logistical support, physical space, and sources of funding for women and gender groups on campus...
...Acropolis, it was amazing. But everyone expected that I would see really really old stuff when I went to Greece; no one, including myself, expected me to come back with any semblance of a tan or the laidback attitude I adopted.But spending seven straight hours under an umbrella in the sand was probably the best way to experience “real” Greek culture and do something totally different from my usual routine. The sun usually gives me freckles or second-degree burns—sometimes even in the dead of winter during a 15 minute snowbound trek...
...democracy movement. Five years ago, the number of Vietnamese dissidents had dwindled to a few dozen aging stalwarts, says Hanoi-based human-rights essayist Nguyen Thanh Giang, and they found it hard to organize or gather more than a dozen signatures for petitions. But when activists created a new umbrella organization?dubbed "8406 Group" because it was formed on April 8, 2006?they trumpeted it on VoIP forums and quickly got 2,000 members, many under the age of 30. "Voice chat has sped up the democracy process," says Giang. Says Julien Pain, head of the Internet Freedom Desk...