It seems inconceivable that China would again resort to armed force - turning "Umbrella Man" into "Tank Man" - in front of the world's media.
ON the eighth consecutive day of rain, we ducked into a restaurant, any restaurant, to escape what was a torrential gale, the kind that turns umbrellas inside out.
That sort of thing is blustery enough to turn your umbrella inside out, but by the time we reach You Don't See Me, it's attention all shipping and watch your roof tiles: "We are just the monkeys that fell out of the trees..
As the director of the Orange County Labor Federation, Gebre helped turn the umbrella group of unions into a political force in what remains Republican territory.
Pour 1 to 2 inches (2.5 to 5.1 cm) of peat-based potting mix into the new container, turn the umbrella plant on its side and gently slide it out of its old container.
Boris Johnson has interrupted a sweeping speech on the UK's geopolitical future to make a passionate plea to save the African elephant, saying they are on the brink of extinction as they "get turned into umbrella stands and billiard balls".
Animals that filled our imaginations since our childhood and whose every attribute is a walking metaphor – even if you do not care they all get turned into umbrella stands and billiard balls, and even if you do not mind your great-grandchildren grow up in a world without elephants, I do mind deeply".
This is, after all, the woman who opted for a voluntary sterilisation at 22 because "the world has enough babies" and who has stipulated in her will that her feet be turned into umbrella stands "as a reminder of the depravity of killing innocent animals".
Next stop, as the wind turned my umbrella inside out, was the Capital One Cross-Campus Business Competition where I was serving as a judge.
Walking the plank before I reached the hotel door, a fierce gust of wind blew off my hat and turned my umbrella into a bowl-shaped, useless thing.
