Word: gleeful
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...Palestinians have died in the uprising (compared with 57 Israelis), and he delivered fiery speeches at all the funerals he could attend. Barghouti is more popular than Arafat in the West Bank. They call him Napoleon. Despite Sharon's electoral win, he actually comes across as gleeful, an ambitious prizefighter finally getting a shot at the champ. As he wolfs down a plate of lamb and rice, too rushed to take off his black leather jacket, he rattles off the reasons to be happy. The intifadeh not only brought Barak crawling back to the table, he believes, but also pressured...
This quote likely refers to the line in the Talmud (Megillah 7b) that is frequently used by gleeful college students who seek to justify self-destructive excesses through appeal to religious texts...
...These gleeful students would do well to keep on reading, because the Talmud text immediately continues...
...KEDCOMPANY.COM Eve.com Pets.com Garden.com--this was the year their bright and shiny dotcom promises turned to bitter ashes. This website with its unprintable name that suggests an unseemly demise has become essential reading for its gleeful tracking of the Internet industry's dot bombs, layoff by layoff...
...making his case to the members, Gore strategist Bob Shrum broke in with some startling news: the Florida Supreme Court had forbidden Harris to certify the vote on Saturday. The court wanted to hear arguments from both sides on Monday. Lieberman responded with a gleeful bark: "All right!" It wasn't over...