Dr. ORNSTEIN: I think a lot of it was almost just this sadistic glee for some of them - after years and years in the minority and feeling that humiliation -that we could turn the tables around on you.

NPR: Can Congress Ease Partisan Tensions?

That may account for the spiteful glee with which some critics attacked him when it was discovered he hadn't put quotation marks around certain passages in his books that had been taken from other works--even though all those passages were fully footnoted.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

Ross consistently drains away all the tensions built into the grisly story the growing wariness and suspicion that each teen-ager must feel as the number of those still alive begins to diminish, or the horror (or glee) that some of them experience as they commit murder.

NEWYORKER: Kids at Risk

Again there are worries about Miami's teamwork and tactics, and it's easy to detect some public glee that it could all be going south once more.

WSJ: The Miami Heat, on the Brink

Now, we may discount some of said glee - they are scarcely in the business of talking up an opponent.

BBC: Planning for the future

As some Republicans note with glee, any failure to deal with illegal immigration in the next two years is likely to hurt the other side at the polls.

ECONOMIST: Immigration

On rival network Twitter, many observers seemed to be rooting against Facebook and its early investors, finding a measure of glee in the fact that the price didn't skyrocket as some had predicted.

CNN: Facebook IPO underwhelms Web, too

Early on, the picture offers some fine, flowing scenes of the gang tearing down the street with all the zip and glee of Truffaut kids, and loping and shoving, angular and energetic, across the basketball court.

NEWYORKER: The Basketball Diaries

We have a feeling the "Glee" Christmas album, Rihanna and other artists who made the poor choice to release albums today will have some serious competition.

CNN: 'Abbey Road,' 'Let it Be' climbing iTunes charts