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...Dartmouth Review razed the shanties erected by the anti-aparthied activists shortly before the school's Winter Carnival. The result was an increase in campus racial tensions and a crisis in confidence that led one professor to say at a faculty meeting that MacLaughlin had made Dartmouth "the laughingstock of the Ivy League...
...Gary Hart became a political ghost at a tender age. He tried to make a comeback and instead became a laughingstock and an embarrassment to his party...
...Britain, for example, distinguished Oxford Philosopher Michael Dummett charged last fall that revisionist Roman Catholic scholarship concerning the historicity of the Virgin Birth and the Resurrection is threatening to make the church a "fraud" and a "laughingstock." In the U.S., conservative Christians are outraged by a self-appointed supreme court of professors known as the Jesus Seminar, which meets twice a year to cast ballots on whether each of the Master's New Testament sayings is authentic or not. Sample conclusion: Jesus did say "Blessed are the poor" but not "Blessed are the meek" or "Blessed are the peacemakers," phrases...
...four months in 1973; Phyllis George resigned after less than eight months in 1985. Instead of fretting over their boss's impatience, though, CBS staffers are pleased by the new, eternal challenge. Says one producer: "We went from being the class act of the morning to being the absolute laughingstock. Now we've got to regain what we had." And build...
Massachusetts' political realities currently support a one-party or perhaps a party-and-a-half system. Only the historically powerful Democratic Party seems able to carry on its business without absurd blunders that leave it more of a laughingstock than a political force...