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...much of the past three decades, the Acehnese have survived on faith and little else. Now, finally, they may have something more tangible to hope for. On Aug. 15, representatives of the Indonesian government and the rebels of the Free Aceh Movement (known by its Indonesian acronym, G.A.M.) are scheduled to sign a peace treaty in Helsinki, the fruit of months of hard bargaining. Both sides have made concessions on points that had killed previous talks, and there's little debate about what brought about the new flexibility: the tsunami. To be sure, "it was also the democratization in Indonesia...
...Although it took some time and rumination to come up with the official acronym, these guys were always BLOHARDS-that?s what brought them together. Like Powers, who spent much of his career as ad director of Family Weekly and then USA Weekend, many of the founding fathers were in the media business. By nature, they were blowhards...
...Gitmo interrogations since the detention camp opened four years ago. Chief Pentagon spokesman Larry DiRita tells TIME that the log was compiled by various uniformed interrogators and observers on the Pentagon's Joint Task Force at Gitmo as the interrogation proceeded. It is stamped SECRET ORCON, a military acronym for a document that is supposed to remain with the organization that created it. A Pentagon official who has seen the log describes it as the "kind of document that was never meant to leave Gitmo...
...Rich who helped create the Muzik Mafia, a loose collective of musical outcasts deemed too rock, too rough or just too weird by the famously conservative executives on Nashville's Music Row. It was Rich, along with partner Big Kenny Alphin, who came up with the Mafia acronym (Musically Artistic Friends in Alliance) and slogan ("Music without prejudice") and showed the group members how to turn their individuality into hits, co-writing Gretchen Wilson's underclass anthem Redneck Woman and the winningly lewd Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy) for his own duo, Big & Rich. Now Rich is putting...
...distinguished-visitors book he signed. Down the street, at the Helmut Weber bakery, which displays in its windows the scuffed shoes and muddy togs he wore the day of his famous victory, the bakers whipped up thousands of "Bobele" pretzels. They are B-shaped, and their name is an acronym standing for Boris Becker of Leimen. He does not receive any royalty on their sales. Not yet, anyway...