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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."
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.
Newsweek 's cover story chronicles--with more than a little Schadenfreude --the decline of the Kennedy dynasty.
A piece tinged with Schadenfreude says that Starbucks may be growing too fast.
Of course, everyone makes mistakes, although Mr. Robertson's difficulties may inspire a bit more Schadenfreude than your ordinary, average business disaster.