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Then and now, elected officials were blaming immigrants for all the supposed maladies afflicting this country.

Traditionally, we approached our jobs in the press as comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.

Carter understood problems afflicting the world as spiritual challenges in part, noting that industrialized Western society had failed to adopt Christian principles of concern and caring.

Something is genuinely off about the goings-on at the conference, from strange deaths and elevators that suddenly aren’t elevators, to a rash of scabby infections afflicting guests and the discovery of a subterranean tunnel.

On this recent night, they are getting walloped by the playoff-bound Connecticut Sun in a game that illustrates one of the basic problems afflicting the Sparks.