Word: umbrellaism
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...found that more than two-thirds of the population - and more than 80% of the young people the law aims to help - want the government to rescind the law's terms. For some, opposition justified violence. At the Sorbonne, a minority of protesters hurled anything they could tear loose - umbrella stanchions, metal barricades, café chairs - at the shields of riot police, who replied with water cannon and tear gas. "The bourgeoisie to the gulag!" read a wall scrawl. Most of last week's demonstrators deplored the violence - but not the passion that underlaid it. Marchers derided throwaway "Kleenex jobs...
...find brochures and contact information for health resources or perhaps even house these organizations itself, offering students the convenience and simplicity of one-stop shopping. It would serve a similar purpose for career opportunities for women. Following this plan, the women’s center would be an umbrella organization in the mold of the Phillip Brooks House Association and the Harvard Foundation...
...Officers were alerted to a suspicious package at the Longwood Medical Area last Monday. The suspicious package was deemed not suspicious upon police inspection. It contained an umbrella...
Gross responded that the new center will act as an umbrella organization to oversee the 40 different women’s groups on campus, playing a role analogous to that of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations. He also said that the center would likely open in the fall and that the search for a director has narrowed to five candidates...
...however, are marred by real problems that need solutions. There are tragic undercurrents caused mainly by lack of infrastructure, rampant corruption and the absence of realistic programs to combat poverty in urban and rural areas. Unless these two future superpowers make efforts to bring all social classes under their umbrella of success, we cannot be euphoric over their one-dimensional growth. Arvind K. Pandey Allahabad, India...