Word: umbrellaism
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...massacre stopped Forces Vives in its tracks. The government has since banned political rallies, and the opposition movement doesn't look set to defy that. "Everybody is scared," says Souleymane Bah, the president of an umbrella movement of human rights organizations known by the acronym CODDH. "Me too." Bah was beaten unconscious in the stadium and lay there for two hours before eventually finding...
...changed our power play around quite a bit for this game and it really paid off,” Parker said. “Harvard really likes to pressure you...when we’re playing an umbrella like we do, it’s easy to chase us, so we changed it—a little different look...
...priests and bishops, and perhaps attracted by the liturgical and historical links with Catholicism, Benedict's official door-opening is an unexpected godsend that might just allow for the best of both worlds: hanging onto their Anglican culture and parish life while moving under the doctrinally rigid umbrella of Roman orthodoxy...
...This recall doesn't just involve one specific model. Stop using any single- or double-umbrella stroller with Maclaren written on it, says the CPSC. The problem: Maclaren received reports that 12 children had their fingertips amputated after they placed their fingers in the hinge where the stroller folds. "This is a very serious hazard," says Scott Wilson, spokesman for the CPSC. "We know child behavior, we know kids like to explore and sometimes put their fingers in places where they shouldn't be. But finger amputations that result from using a product that parents expect to be safe...
...Human rights activists say it would have been political suicide for Odinga and Kibaki to refer Kenyans to the ICC themselves. "Any referral by Kenya would have been a de facto admission that Kenya is unable to prosecute the perpetrators, and that would have put us under the umbrella of failed states," Hassan Omar Hassan, head of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, tells TIME. "So the President and the Prime Minister wanted to save themselves from embarrassment in that regard...