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Noting the similarities, one astute fraygrant suggested restricting more civilized, high-minded debate to "Politics" and reserving "Clinton" for equally important venal, mean-spirited exchanges.
Strange as it may seem to a journalist writing outside the academy, attacks as mean-spirited as his have real consequences inside the academy--particularly on the funding, tenuring, and acceptance of scholars under attack.
Stupid as it sounds, sitting as we are on the cusp of this new millennium, women still lead sharply circumscribed lives trimmed in by mean-spirited nonsense that's meant to keep them down.
Eager to counter their mean-spirited geriatric image, the GOP wanted its response to the president's State of the Union to be delivered by bright, young party stalwarts, but instead ...
The Fray's reputation as a home for hostile, rude, and mean-spirited exchanges suffered a severe beating at the hands of the "Reading" thread, which was so civilized that participants suggested taking insulin shots afterward.