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...this investigation worth the damage it has done to our society? It has made us the laughingstock of the world. MANECK S. WADIA Del Mar, Calif...
...teams continue to do badly (football) or remain in mediocrity (hockey, basketball) they may lose their entire fan support. Already there is an alarming decline in spectator attendance. Harvard's big sports have to start producing some championship caliber teams or we will become the laughingstock of the entire sports community...
...became notorious for his blunderbuss attacks on Jews and his ludicrous theory classifying blacks as "sun people" and whites as "ice people." Other so-called Afrocentric scholars maintained that the ancient civilization of Egypt invented airplanes and electricity thousands of years ago. Small wonder black studies sometimes became a laughingstock...
Meanwhile, the scandals engulfing Harvard's Undergraduate Council are so frequent that the student government has become something of a laughingstock. This reputation stands before both the students it purports to represent and the administrators with whom it purports to engage in meaningful negotiations...
...Gibson, an inarticulate but wily South Carolina dentist who has chaired the group since 1985, the organization has sunk into near bankruptcy--both financially and intellectually. Says Michael Meyers, a former n.a.a.c.p. staff member who now leads the New York Civil Rights Coalition: ``The N.A.A.C.P. has become a laughingstock...