Word: mocking
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Winthrop House’s fall “Chastity” party will be the first official House party to run until 2 a.m. this Saturday night, but partygoers will no longer be able to revel in the gathering’s former tradition of mock prostitution...
...toll wouldn't be great, the contamination and the public panic could be widespread. "The ultimate dirty bomb is a nuclear power reactor," says NCI's Leventhal. That someone will run a jet into a cooling tower isn't the only risk. Periodically the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has staged mock attacks against facilities, and the faux intruders won half the time--meaning they were in a position to cause severe damage. It's a target-rich environment: not only is the core vulnerable, but one NRC study also concluded that if terrorists blew up the cooling pool that holds...
...Plenty has happened since the birth of the U.N. to mock that hope. But that has not deterred Kofi Annan from making it his life's work to revive and sustain it in the face of the pervasive cynicism that pervades his world. People have been beatified for less...
Unfortunately, America may not be adequately prepared against a biological attack. This June, American military experts gathered for a mock germ-warfare exercise termed “Dark Winter.” The simulation began with a single case of smallpox virus in Oklahoma. Despite the best efforts of the trained personnel involved, 16,000 Americans were infected in the simulation and 6,000 ultimately died...
...questions about them," he says. All of us are likely to crave escape in the months ahead. But we should be afraid to live in a country where entertainment that deals with people's fears is untouchable, where satire is impossible. A country where it is forbidden to mock the President by popular consensus is no freer than a country where it is forbidden to mock the President...