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Sheltered by an umbrella, Levinson accompanied the group on a portable electronic keyboard...
...only of isolated special interests, nor are they left-wing issues. The special interests in the case of toxic dumping are the chemical companies, in whose interest it is to contaminate public drinking water. Real special interests, the Democrats should remind people more often, are mostly under the Republican umbrella: defense contractors, the tobacco lobby, the NRA, chemical companies. Those groups speak for themselves and no one else, usually against the public interest...
Within the P.L.O., Abbas has always been a hard-liner well to the left of that body's mainstream. From its formation in 1964, the P.L.O. has been an umbrella organization for a bewildering variety of groups (Arafat's Fatah is by far the largest) that have little in common but the dream of a Palestinian state. Divided by strategy (whether to rely on diplomacy, guerrilla war or some uneasy amalgam of both) and the rivalries of their leaders, the groups have split and recombined endlessly. In 1974 Arab states proclaimed the P.L.O. "the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian...
...umbrella which folds up every time it rains." The superpowers, meanwhile, have brushed aside the U.N. in waging their bloody conflicts in Viet Nam and Afghanistan...
...middle-aged fat guy with a decent forehand, the Terminator wielded an open umbrella to beat back the green-clad horde. Finally, one resourceful 'shman took his umbrella and he didn't give it back...