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...many of the students who celebrated Suharto's departure by dancing for joy in the fountain at the Parliament complex they had occupied for four days, Habibie was a perpetuation of the problem that brought Indonesia to its knees--the authoritarian system of crony capitalism known by its Indonesian acronym of KKN, for corruption, collusion and nepotism. Had all the riots and deaths--more than 500--given Indonesians nothing but a clone of the kleptocrat they had so painfully deposed...
MCAT, Mention this acronym to any pre-med (you'll probably have to go to the library to find one) who is taking the grueling, eight-hour test in four days, and you will likely be met with snarls, nervous laughter, or perhaps, an emotional breakdown...
...loss of Radcliffe in the HR combination opens up whole new doors of fun acronyms. HRSAS (the Harvard-Radcliffe Society of Arab Students) could become a sassy-sounding SASH (Society of Arab Students at Harvard). And sadly, musical organizations seem to be particularly vulnerable to less flattering connotations in this new Radcliffe-less world. The elegantly constructed HARMONY acronym (Harvard and Radcliffe Musical Outreach to Neighborhood Youth) will be rechristened to a less charitable Harvard MONY. And alas! Our prestigious philharmonic, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HO), will be condensed...
...liberators, but to Ho they were no better than the French. Slipping across the Chinese frontier into Vietnam--his first return home in three decades--he urged his disciples to fight both the Japanese and the French. There, in a remote camp, he founded the Viet Minh, an acronym for the Vietnam Independence League, from which he derived his nom de guerre, Ho Chi Minh--roughly "Bringer of Light...
Nike says it has a staff of 1,000 labor-practices managers enforcing a program the company calls shape--an acronym for Safety, Health, Attitude of Management, People, Environment. "We are the only company that has people dedicated exclusively to labor-practice enforcement," says Brad Figel, Nike's Washington lobbyist. Outside auditors as well as nongovernmental organizations have also had a look...