Word: rancorous
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...Republicans alone who brought us to this juncture. The hypocritical and unprecedented obstruction of Senate Democrats did just as much to elevate partisan rancor. If the Dems were to allow all judicial nominees an up-or-down vote, the current kerfuffle would quickly...
...finally, I asked that she be serious. I wanted to see the rancor that allegedly is her sole contribution to public discourse (that and being a "lying liar," in Al Franken's estimation, as well as a "telebimbo" [Salon] and a "skank," according to a blog kept by Vanity Fair's James Wolcott). Why, I asked, did she enjoy attacking others and being attacked...
...overshadow his academic commitments. But the Faculty will deserve even more if it wastes its energies in the same way. What Summers thinks about statistical variations in scientific ability is not as important as what he thinks about Allston or curricular reform, and these issues are lost amid the rancor. According to Wednesday’s Crimson, the two main docket items at Tuesday’s Faculty meeting—the progress of the Curricular Review, and a letter from the Dean of the Faculty setting out controversial new tenure procedures—“went unaddressed...
...ambitious embrace. But Stone, who wrote the film with Christopher Kyle and Laeta Kalogridis, sees the old Greek fables as horror stories, Olympus as Hades and the Macedonian royal family--led by one-eyed Philip (Val Kilmer) and his spiteful bride Olympias (Angelina Jolie)--drowning in lust and supernal rancor. In this realm, the king is the last man conscious at an orgy, just as Stone is still drunk on the pricey, preposterous adventure of moviemaking. And at 58, he's still standing...
...polarization, aided and abetted by Michael Moore, Mel Gibson, MoveOn.org and the Swift Boat Vets, among many others, has deepened into a variety of embitterments. But elections are--or should be--the antacids to this kind of dyspepsia. They are ways to clear the air, to settle the rancor for a while, to concede that the country as a whole has now decided one way or the other, however fuming you may still be inside. Lefties should lay off on the threats to move abroad; righties should quit the gloating. Neither is warranted. There's a difference between domestic opponents...