Word: laughingstocks
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...dirty and corrupt. Has he even bothered to think of what kind of ruin it may bring to his life and reputation? Think of it, Manny! You must give careful thought to what you have in mind or else what will follow will make you a perfect laughingstock. Herminio S. Arcales Jr. Manila...
...grading discipline on the part of course leaders. However, this effort, to actually preserve the way they grade, seems easier than any other method of grade differentiation. In any case, something must be done, because, eight years after The Boston Globe declared our grading system the “laughingstock of the Ivy League,” we haven’t progressed very far. The point of grades should be to emphasize relative, not absolute, achievement. To this end, if it is easier to create A-pluses than it is to emphasize B-minuses, then that seems like...
...Spaniards, it was as if government officials themselves were giving hands-on lessons. Luis Alfonso Hernández Carrón, spokesman for the opposition Popular Party in Extremadura, said the classes were "an attack on the intelligence of young people" and lamented that the region was becoming "the laughingstock of Spain." (See pictures of Spain's Madcap Tomato Festival...
...This makes us a laughingstock.' ASHLI CHIN, a resident of Kuala Lumpur, on a Malaysian court's decision to cane a Muslim woman, Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno (right), for drinking beer; the outcry over the verdict spurred the government to indefinitely postpone the punishment...
Dobbs, Lou • becoming by of a national laughingstock (and a humiliating embarrassment to CNN) - thanks to the obsession of with the thoroughly debunked "birther" conspiracy theory that Obama was actually born in Kenya and is therefore an "illegal" president - provokes Agnewesque attack by on "limp-minded, lily-livered lefties...