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While local newspaper coverage has generally been self-pitying, the comfortably faraway New York Times responded with Schadenfreude , likening the Northwest's woes to biblical plagues ("We finally got our natural disaster, as if it were coming to us," conceded a Seattle coffee server) and reporting that "some Northwesterners" confess to a "sheltered, even slightly wimpy quality in their approach to the extremes of nature."
"Contemporary plagues, according to the new Renewal Movement haggada.
By shifting attitudes and teaching youth to understand each other, we halt the violence that plagues our schools and neighborhoods.
The Death of Outrage suffers from the same surfeit of self-righteousness that plagues all Bennett's ventures.
Viral plagues such as smallpox, polio, measles, hepatitis B, rabies, and other once-terrifying scourges have only been beaten back by vaccines.