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PBHA is the umbrella organization for many of the College’s community service programs...
...Qaeda has its headquarters in training camps in Afghanistan. In addition to directing its own attacks, it acts as an umbrella group, financing and subcontracting operations to local networks like Algeria's Armed Islamic Group (GIA), a terrorist organization active throughout Europe. The camps in Afghanistan play a vital role. Whatever network they may originally have been aligned with, visitors to the camps meet men from other groups, forge relationships and acquire the stature of soldiers in a holy war. The high command of the group includes bin Laden, al-Zawahiri and Abu Zubaydah, a Saudi-born Palestinian...
...Egyptians--al-Zawahiri, 50, is by choice a less visible symbol of terror than bin Laden. Three years ago, at a small press conference in the Afghan city of Khost, bin Laden announced the formation of the World Islamic Front for the Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders, an umbrella group of radicals from across the Islamic world. You could easily have missed al-Zawahiri, the stocky bearded man in owlish eyeglasses seated beside him. But when bin Laden described to reporters the individual duty he was placing on all Muslims--"to kill Americans and their allies"--it could have been...
...dragged between them by two adults. Then we're looking behind her sleeping head, at a pond: the suitcase drifts, unexplained, from left to right and out of shot. Back again, and now the frame is filled by a Chinese man who fishes out the case with an umbrella, stands it by the pond and walks away. Is this a case full of Hsiao-kang's fantasies, or a wake-up call to Shiang-chyi to pack her bags and return to Taipei? As patient as a century, Tsai's canvas in What Time deserves its own gallery...
...Moka, was released last year in their native Britain to great success. The trouble is, there’s nothing distinctive about this album that separates it from releases by other British bands on the market. There has not been another band before Toploader for whom the umbrella term Britpop is so perfectly suited...