Word: riffraff
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Tester owes his primary Senate victory in Montana to them and not to his opponent?s zipper problem) and then becomes self-congratulatory, boasting about the insurgent primary challenge to Joe Lieberman, where the incumbent now leads by only 55-40. The message of these triumphs? That the ?riffraff? has triumphed over the elite. It?s all very empowering, though the speech?s crescendo is about how the liberal blogosphere propelled Stephen Colbert?s White House Correspondents? dinner speech into the No. 1 spot on iTunes. As wins go, it seems symbolic at best. But what a symbol! The mainstream...
...potential source of new perspectives? Is the Harvard bubble not already sufficiently insular? It’s difficult to say, when reading existing blogs like Cambridge Common, how much of the readership comes from outside of Harvard, but it is empirically not the case that the uninformed riffraff masses come in and preclude substantive discourse, so what gains are realized by keeping them...
...France's tough-talking Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, blamed the trouble on "riffraff" and years of neglect of the problem by Socialist governments. For many, though, he was throwing salt into an open wound. The families of the electrocuted youths refused Sarkozy's offer to meet with them, and his hard-nosed approach drew criticism even from within his government. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, a probable rival to Sarkozy in the race to represent France's conservatives in the 2007 presidential election, arranged a meeting with the families, and calls for calm were resonating from all sides...
...resolve the problem he created? One idea would be to arbitrarily set the lower limit for a planet at about 2,000 km (1,250 miles) in diameter, which would let Pluto remain a planet and make 2003 UB313 one as well, but keep the rest of the riffraff out. "Pluto," says Alan Boss, an astronomer at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and a member of the IAU working group, "has historically been considered a planet, and so any definition we adopt really must include it." Another proposal would drop the limit to 1,000 km, letting Quaoar and Sedna...
...cues from our superior athletics program and announced its secession from the Ivy Council. Superiority comes in all shapes and sizes here at Harvard, including in student governance, and we are glad that UC President Matthew J. Glazer ’06 no longer has to mix with the riffraff. Hopefully the Yale crew team is still somewhere, lost on Worcester’s Lake Quinsigamond, sparing itself another merciless whooping at the hands of its clear superiors. And if not, haven’t you learned your lesson...