Word: mean
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...probably my most unfortunate comment. I apologized for it. I apologized for a lot of things that I've said. But I don't apologize nearly as much these days because I don't say as much and I'm more careful about what I say. I didn't mean to hurt anybody's feelings with that, but it did hurt people's feelings and I'm sorry...
Since Barack Obama's victory celebration in Grant Park, the chattering class has been atwitter wondering what, exactly, his election will mean for African Americans. On Meet the Press, Tom Brokaw asked about the "impact ... on the black community and in those neighborhoods where there are dysfunctional families." To many pundits, both black and white, Obama's election to the White House signals the end of black America's unchallenged status as sore losers and complaint-mongers. "African Americans have just entered the no-excuses zone," Jonetta Rose Barras wrote in the Washington Post. Obama "won't tolerate ... the long...
...won’t notice anything different in the dining hall. All the signs, posters, even the ‘In God We Trust—all others pay cash’ sign,” he jokes. “Nothing has changed, really. I mean, you’re going to see a little more bricks on the wall and newly painted tables, but the dining hall is going to stay pretty much the same. You know, people don’t want us to change...
...just totally depends on which burger is good and which is not,” he says. “My father is not going to remove Obama or McCain from the menu just because they lost the election. I mean, Hillary’s still on the menu...
...addition to the index, the study also profiles each of the 130 countries, highlighting data such as the literacy rate, average number of births per woman, and women’s mean age at marriage...