Word: laughingstocks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Mitofsky, "embarrassing as hell." Yet it also underscored TV's tremendous power, as the networks' blunders led to Al Gore's concession takeback. And as that wild night set up an acrimonious Florida soap opera played out for the cameras, it revealed the media's dual, contradictory roles: national laughingstock and de facto fourth branch of government...
...Mitofsky, "embarrassing as hell." Yet it also underscored TV's tremendous power, as the networks' blunders led to Al Gore's concession takeback. And as that wild night set up an acrimonious Florida soap opera played out for the cameras, it revealed the media's dual, contradictory roles: national laughingstock and de facto fourth branch of government...
...wonderful he found his first week at Harvard. He recalled dining with a Nobel laureate and hearing an address by Grigoriy Yavlinsky. The latter he described (in the finest parenthetical name-dropping style) as the future president of Russia. Yavlinsky, a liberal politician and frequent Harvard visitor, is a laughingstock in Russia whose share of the presidential vote has never reached the double-digits...
...always been the goal of the Harvard Lampoon to be the laughingstock of campus. And these days, they are doing remarkably well...
...evidence so far is inconclusive. The man in city hall has at times displayed a brand of competence unlike any we saw from Barry. The city is on the verge of a third straight budget surplus. The new police chief, Charles Ramsey, is remaking our laughingstock of a police department into an impressive law-enforcement agency; it not only handled the recent protests against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund with aplomb but also arrested a teenage suspect in the zoo shooting only 24 hours after it happened. A burst of new charter schools is providing students with educational...