Word: boring
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...Aptly enough, Reilly chose to write about the unwritten rules of sports. Several of the dicta that he goes on to enumerate, including one about stealing when owning a late lead in a baseball game, struck me as extremely pertinent. Then I reached the end of the article, which bore the following disclaimer: “Rick Reilly is on vacation this week. This column first appeared in the Jan. 16, 1995, issue.” Over a decade old, I marveled, but not in the least bit outdated. That’s because there’s a certain...
...rush of activity bore all the marks of a grassroots campaign. But these students were not promoting a politician. They wanted to help rebuild New Orleans, starting with one neighborhood called Broadmoor...
Central to his argument was the idea that developing nations disproportionately suffer the consequences of developed countries’ wasteful energy policies. Podesta said that the countries of sub-Saharan Africa, largely too poor to afford the fossil fuels that power most of the developed world, bore the brunt of the climatic change caused by the burning of oil. These countries suffer famine due to lowered rainfall and crop yields as a result of climate change...
After a while, the two-dimensional acting will completely and utterly bore you. There is barely a palpable plot – two gay men in New York City, Adam (Chester) and Steve (Malcolm Gets) must overcome an animalistic sexual attraction to find true love – and nary a trace of dinginess ever creeps into the East Village setting...
...freed, for whatever reason, at the whim of their captors, or, else murdered once their presence becomes too problematic or unprofitable. The taking of these harmless humanitarians served, if nothing else, to remind that there?s only so far good intentions will take you in Iraq. That they bore no ill will, were staunchly non-violent, sympathetic to the Iraqis? plight, earnestly assimilating, and even anti-American in a barely veiled way, meant nothing. They were still snatched, still held for months, and Fox was still brutalized and executed. With ever more chilling surety, there is barely any quarter being...