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...Crimson reclaim glory after its potentially disastrous stumble against Brown? I’ve got an acronym for you, and it’s only four letters long: NCAA...
...campus, he felt that anxiety.In January of 2007, Greenbaum, along with David Ingber ’07, got Harvard’s first ever student organization devoted to stand-up comedy approved as an official club. They called it the Harvard Stand-Up Comedy Society, or HSUCS. Say that acronym out loud once or twice and you’ll get the joke.“The dean’s office didn’t realize that our acronym was Harvard SUCS,” Greenbaum explains. But soon, it seemed that the proverbial...
...thinking goes, for the Guard to run a vast financial empire reputedly worth billions of dollars. But to reformists, the Guard is to blame for the poor performance of Iran's economy, as well as its tattered relations with the international community. "There are elements within the IRGC [the acronym for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] that operate like a private mafia and benefit from Iran's isolated status," says Karim Sadjadpour of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "That's why they do their very best to torpedo efforts to improve Iran's relations with the West...
...coincidence that these roads mean big money for home builders, oil companies, asphalt producers, engineering firms and the rest of the highway-building industry; a powerful coalition of business groups lobbied for the bill as Americans for Transportation Mobility. And how do you think they came up with that acronym...
...earmarks inserted by individual congressmen, including not one but two bridges to nowhere in Alaska - the notorious $223 million crossing to the island of Gravina, population 50, and a $229 million boondoggle near Anchorage known as Don Young's Way. The entire bill was known as "TEA-LU," an acronym for the awkwardly named Transportation Equity Act - a Legacy for Users, which only makes sense if you know that Young's wife is named...