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...Democrats in calling for a change in policy. Indeed, the President's tragic addiction to broad-brush propaganda prevented him from telling his Cleveland audience the one bit of good news emanating from Iraq in recent months--that the Iraqi version of al-Qaeda (AQI is the military acronym) is being rejected by its Sunni hosts across the country; that recent U.S. military operations have forced AQI from some of its most important sanctuaries, like the city of Baqubah; that many al-Qaeda operatives are on the run; that even horrific explosions, like the bomb that killed more than...
...Convening in the same year that University Hall was overtaken and occupied by protesting students, the Fainsod committee led to the establishment of a new system of student government organized as a decentralized, “alphabet soup” conglomeration of acronym-tagged student-faculty committees that would remain in place for much of the seventies. Few students appear to have been enamored with their performance...
DEFINITION gee-waht n: a Bush Administration acronym for the global war on terrorism...
...Employing traditional plesetan wordplay, Punkasila speculate, often quite subversively, on other meanings for these acronyms: Tikyan Ning Idab-Idabi (Poor but Adorable) and Komando Pasukan Suka Susu (Milk Lovers' Force Command). For an exercise in semantics, the resulting CD, Acronym Wars, is ear-splittingly entertaining. And as presented at Darren Knight Gallery alongside military-style musical memorabilia, it's an intriguing cultural artifact. Elsewhere in the show, machine-gun-shaped guitars carved from mahogany stand sentinel alongside bespoke batik military fatigues, which Kesminas says are key "because in a way the project is all about camouflage." All sorts of things...
...last week, I logged into Facebook and came across a group entitled "Students for the Secession of New England (SSNE)." Intrigued by the title and atrocious acronym, I clicked to see just what this group was all about...