Word: umbrellas
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Harvard began the season with the same umbrella set it used last year, then changed to a 2-3 alignment before a Dec. 10 loss at Boston College. Last week, the Crimson adjusted away from the 2-3. This weekend should bring another wrinkle...
...Poland, other newly liberated East European countries). They understand that the sinews of stability - free commerce, open sea lanes, regional balances of power, nonproliferation, deterrence - are provided overwhelmingly by the American colossus. They understand that without it, the world collapses into chaos and worse. They believe in the American umbrella and are committed to helping the umbrella holder...
...Midwest. Yet growing up in a declining coal town in West Virginia or in rural Alabama necessarily presents high school students with institutional hurdles generally associated with those of the inner city. And while a vast majority might think that students of this pedigree would benefit from umbrella affirmative action programs with diversity as their goal, the appreciable difference between an African American high schooler from Harlem and the average student boarding at St. Paul’s is not ethnic, but socio-economic or geographic...
There is also a more nefarious possibility: label fraud, something the industry's umbrella group, Cashmere & Camel Hair Manufacturers Institute, takes very seriously. Karl Spilhaus, the group's president, approaches the task of uncovering ersatz cashmere as soberly as an old-master specialist does in debunking fake Rembrandts. He has brought suit against stores for selling products labeled "100% cashmere" that he claims are in fact mere blends...
After going 2-for-19 on the power play in its last three games—7-for-41 for the season—the Crimson switched its power play in practice this week, from an umbrella with junior Tom Cavanagh, Welch, and Pettit across the top, to a set with Welch and Pettit on either end of the blue line and three men across the bottom...