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...acronyms or throwing in unnecessary words to achieve cutesy backronyms. Either way, FM (note: only two letters) presents the fifteen worst, and occasionally fictional, in its mission to shame people into better club names. 1) Harvard College Chinese Chess Club (HCCCC) 2) Youth Alliance for Leadership and Development in Africa (YALDA) 3) Mental Health Awareness and Advocacy Group (MHAAG) 4) Harvard College Association of Practice and Learning of Yan Xin Life Science and Technology (HCAOPALOYXLSAT) 5) Student Astronomers at Harvard-Radcliffe (STAHR) 6) Circle of Students: Reach and Teach Across Borders (COSRATAB) 7) Recreational Experience and Arts Creativity with Harvard...

Author: By Jessica L. Fleischer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Bad Acronyms | 10/10/2007 | See Source »

...next to every memorable phrase or description. Eventually each page was marked with so many dots that I decided instead to reread the book - which I've done about seven times. His works are like symphonies that one enjoys listening to over and over again. Mel Leyde, SOPHIATOWN, SOUTH AFRICA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Arctic Grab | 10/9/2007 | See Source »

...South African has enough rugby mania in his blood to stop a charging elephant. This is not a sinister throwback to the "Afrikaner Broederbond." We as a country glow with pride when our players, black or white, do us proud on the sports field. Paul de Villiers, PIETERMARITZBURG, SOUTH AFRICA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Arctic Grab | 10/9/2007 | See Source »

...expense of winning." Is it ethical to field a weaker team for political purposes and insult thousands of supporters who have paid their hard-earned cash to watch what should be a contest between the best players available? That would give the impression that in the "new South Africa" a new bigoted, stubborn political élite has replaced the old one. Stephen J. Lewis, HENFIELD, ENGLAND...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Arctic Grab | 10/9/2007 | See Source »

...many native Americans are on U.S. sports teams? How many blacks are on the U.S. Olympic swimming team? In sports, the only discrimination that can be justified is discrimination on the basis of the abilities of the sportsmen and -women. Moxie Hartmann, RANDBURG, SOUTH AFRICA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Arctic Grab | 10/9/2007 | See Source »

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