Word: umbrellas
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...Mujahedeen Shura Council, an umbrella group that includes Al-Qaeda in Iraq, posted an internet message Tuesday claiming that the group's new leader, Abu Hamza al-Muhajer, had personally killed the Americans. Although the group has offered no definitive proof so far that it was responsible for the kidnapping and murder of Tucker and Menchaca, its statement promised that it would soon release a videotape to back its claim...
...Zarqawi merged his jihadi group under the umbrella of al-Qaeda and pledged fealty to bin Laden. But there was reason to believe the relationship was strained. Al-Zarqawi's jihad was more rigidly uncompromising than bin Laden's: it wasn't enough to kill Westerners, it was just as important to slaughter fellow Arabs who followed a different form of Islam. In Afghanistan and Pakistan, bin Laden and al-Zawahiri had been suspicious of Shi'ites but learned to work with them. In al-Zarqawi's eyes, Iraq's Shi'ites were apostates because their practice of Islam differs...
...comfortable attending their reunions, Parry says.Since 2000, alumni groups have expanded beyond the HGLC to include groups based on ethnic or religious affiliations, such as the Harvard Black Alumni Society (HBAS), the Harvard Arab Alumni Association (HAAA), and Harvard University Muslim Alumni (HUMA). The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), the umbrella alumni association for all graduates of Harvard University and Radcliffe College, created the Shared Interest Group (SIG) program in 2004 to incorporate other already-existing alumni organizations into the HAA.For the HAA, SIGs provide an alternative to Harvard clubs and reunions as ways of bringing alumni into the HAA network...
Much of Bush’s cuts have been made under the umbrella of broader education reforms in which “accountability” has been the all-encompassing buzzword. But no amount of rhetoric can compensate for empty proposals which lack the bite of substantive programs. The U.S. Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education suggested, among other initiatives, instituting a system of standardized testing across the nation’s colleges and universities and creating a national database that recorded educational data for all U.S. college students. Ultimately, however, Bush?...
...according to Henry H. Gaffney Jr. ’56, he never had trouble taming the traffic: “We all followed the example of [Frothingham Professor of History of Religion] Arthur Darby Nock, who resided at Eliot House when I was there: he mythically brandished his umbrella in a threatening way at approaching vehicles when crossing Mass. Ave. or Cambridge Street.” But at the start of Fall 1955, the number of student-owned cars, though small compared with the total car population in Cambridge, rose sharply. According to University Police Captain Matthew F. Toohy, over...