Word: umbrellas
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...Ever since that there's been that question just below the surface of who's running the show here. Where does one group's authority end and where does the other begin?" Sherwood says. "The HRDC calls itself the umbrella group for Harvard theater but nobody knows what that means...
...leader of an umbrella trade organization for 10 Southeast Asian nations told a packed ARCO Forum Thursday night that the organization must come up with new economic policy because of the current extent and momentum of globalization...
...other rooms are taken up almost entirely by a few desks and file boxes that have overflowed from the other room. Last October, Illingworth notified the IRC—which is the umbrella organization for groups including Harvard Model United Nations, the International Review, HPIE, the Model Security Council, Harvard Model Congress and Harvard Model Congress Europe—that they might have to move out of the Yard...
Editor Diana Schutz solicited work for "Happy Endings" (Dark Horse Comics; $9.95; 96pp.) that would, according to her, "somehow fit under the overarching umbrella" of the title. Interestingly, only a few of the contributions took the mandate literally. Harvey Pekar, of "American Splendor," proffers a disturbing piece about his mental breakdown and the return of a malignant tumor. He ends with "I'm trying to work my way through. What else is there?" Mixing independent newcomers with such big-name artists as Frank Miller ("The Dark Knight Strikes Back,") "Happy Endings" has the most mainstream appeal of the four anthologies...
...their faith seems a thin veneer over more ancient rites and beliefs. The steep-pitched thatched roofs of their teakwood huts are topped with the bhaga and ngadhu, totems symbolizing female and male. The former looks like a miniature of the distinctive huts' roofline, the latter a kind of umbrella. "The bhaga is a symbol of a room that holds everything a family owns. It means fertility and hope for an abundant harvest," says Dara. "The ngadhu symbolizes man, who protects the family." A concatenation of jagged megaliths, some more than three meters high, surrounds the village. "When we pray...