Word: schadenfreudeã
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...things in this life are more awkward than the first relationship or sexual encounter. The first experience of love is a minefield scattered with mistakes and regrets. But while no one wants to experience heartbreak firsthand, reading about others’ experiences delivers a dose of schadenfreude??as is the case with “Things I’ve Learned From Women Who’ve Dumped Me.” “Things I’ve Learned,” a collection of short works by 30 male comedy writers, including Stephen Colbert, Will...
...high crime in both the publishing and academic worlds. Particularly at an institution that aspires to embody veritas each and every day, Viswanathan’s apparent misrepresentation and her suspect excuse demonstrate a lack of integrity.A similarly disappointing corollary to this case is the apparent schadenfreude??the malicious glee of seeing Viswanathan fail—which seems to have greeted this story at Harvard and elsewhere. Call it jealousy, call it shock, or call it entertaining; whatever the explanation, people are reacting to Viswanathan’s predicament as they would to a Yankees loss...
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