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Human emotions like Schadenfreude --and there must be a German word for reverse Schadenfreude : distress at other people's happiness--inevitably complicate rational business judgment.
Bitch, Bitch, Bitch: I've always been grateful to Elizabeth Wurtzel for teaching me the meaning of the word Schadenfreude . It was a concept that came up a lot in the days immediately following Tina Brown's installation as editor at The New Yorker , as many journalists of my acquaintance gleefully counted down the moments until Wurtzel was deposed as pop music critic.
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."
There can, admittedly, be a bitterly Schadenfreude quality to some of it, for theirs is a hard life.
DEPARTMENT OF GROVELING: Bill McMichael e-mails about a Chatterbox item speculating that Gary Hart must be happy at Clinton's troubles: "That was a very cheap shot against Hart, and my guess is that he is gloomy over the whole mess, not experiencing any schadenfreude."