Cliché corner   

For 10 days this June, New York will be comedy's ground zero as comedians from all... (Daily Variety)

At last, a poet willing to...go directly to the ground zero of Canadian culture... (Vancouver Sun)

But the Padres are likely at ground zero for the preseeable future... (Sporting News)

Many students...find themselves at ground zero in a growing controversy... (Los Angeles Times)

Since then, the soccer team has gone from ground zero to a championship. (St. Petersburg Times)

While Mr. Rabin dithered about removing militants living in the center of Hebron — ground zero of the Arab-Israeli conflict.. (New York Times)

Like it or not, she finds herself at ground zero in the web connecting the first couple, the Whitewater real estate deal, the bankrupt Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan and the Rose Law Firm... (USA Today)

The Dow Jones utilities average, which has been at ground zero of the recent stock-market slide... (Chicago Tribune)

From three weeks this spring.