Word: mocking
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...years. Chestnut also spoke of a trip to the Mohegan Sun casino, which drew about 220 attendees, but was forced to be scaled-back from earlier plans. “We tried to do a new variation on Casino Night,” said Chestnut. Efforts to have a mock casino set up on campus were eventually rebuffed by local authorities. “Cambridge law is pretty strict on that kind of stuff,” he said. —Staff writer Nicholas A. Ciani can be reached at nciani@fas.harvard.edu...
...words. If people want calm, high-minded debate, this is not the site for it." Called in to mediate disputes among community members, Moulitsas has all the patience of a drill sergeant. "I get it all the time: 'Such-and-such was mean to me,'" he says in a mock whine. "I feel like I'm in high school. Suck it up, this is politics." More to the point, "This...
Each week the DCCC brands one congressional Republican the "Rubber Stamp of the Week," to mock fervent support for President Bush, and holds a conference call with reporters in the member's district to hammer the point home. "Our rapid-response operation is presidential timber," Emanuel brags...
...Emaan and Abdel Rahman Waleed, the children who lost almost their entire immediate family in the massacre. The investigators ?asked detailed questions, examined each bullet hole and burn mark, and took all sorts of measurements. In the end, they brought all the survivors to the homes and did a mock-up of the Marines' movements. It was a very professional investigation...
...Raseef, a spokesman for the victims' relatives, says U.S. military investigators visited the alleged massacre sites 15 times and "asked detailed questions, examined each bullet hole and burn mark and took all sorts of measurements. In the end, they brought all the survivors to the homes and did a mock-up of the Marines' movements." As the detectives found contradictions in the Marines' account, "the official story fell apart and people started rolling on each other," says the military source...