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...representatives who met in the basement of Swedenborg Chapel, compose the umbrella group Alliance For Freedom and Human Rights in Asia, a newly formed group that represents the interests of a spectrum of human rights organizations...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Opponents of Jiang Plan Vigils, Hunger Strikes During Visit | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

Harvard officials suggested outsourcing the application process, but the DOE has not responded favorably to the suggestion. Congressional aides report that some have advocated moving the program under the umbrella of the National Endowment for the Humanities and out of the control...

Author: By Adam S. Hickey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Congress to Debate Funding for Higher Education | 10/23/1997 | See Source »

Johnson plans to make BET into what marketers call an umbrella brand, under which any number of businesses can shelter. The first BET SoundStage restaurant, a black version of the Hard Rock Cafe, is already a profitable attraction in suburban Washington. The next one opens at Disney World in Orlando, Fla., in May. Johnson says he may open as many as 20 SoundStages around the country, and take the chain public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BET'S TOO HOT A PROPERTY | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

...will also impel a consolidation in which Wall Street investment companies will either get big or get run over. The merger unites Salomon, a power in bonds and a player in investment banking, with the Travelers-owned Smith Barney brokerage, which is stronger in stocks. The Travelers umbrella also includes companies that sell life insurance, property and casualty insurance, annuities, mutual funds and credit cards. Travelers Group's stock market value of $55 billion will now dwarf such giants as Merrill Lynch ($24 billion) and the newly formed Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter Discover ($33 billion). Its securities division, recast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SANFORD WEILL: WALL STREET'S HIGHFLYER | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

...like to work with established groups like PBHA and HSA that do a good job running with the ball and help them to be teachers to other groups," she said, referring to Phillips Brooks House Association, the community-service umbrella group, and Harvard Student Agencies Inc., the student-business consortium...

Author: By Elizabeth S. Zuckerman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: College Names Cooke Coordinator of Student Activities | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

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