Word: botheration
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...just hanging out with incredibly high-level people? Or am I the exception? These are the questions that occasionally bother me when I’m not playing video games or watching DVDs. What, I ask myself as I blast yet another enemy in Goldeneye, did I spend my time doing at Harvard? Where, I think as I watch Gladiator for the fifth time, where are my fellowships, my awards, my 70-hours-per-week consulting jobs...
...technically owned by local and regional governments. With operating budgets provided primarily by local treasuries, there is little impetus for the generals to run the league as a business. Players' salaries are generally minimal and ticket prices are cheap (70 to $6), although fans of many teams don't bother paying when they can climb over fences of poorly secured pitches. But as long as the generals can entertain friends and snack on fried tofu (a spectator favorite) during matches, why should they change anything? Attendance has been flat, from about 700,000 in 1994 to 750,000 today. Longtime...
...princess guarded by a ferocious dragon? You bet. Will Shrek fall in love with her? Why bother to ask? What's so good (or original) about all of this? Well, frankly, it's the Donkey...
...union. As it turns out, that's harder than getting hitched. Though residency isn't required for a civil union, it is to get out of one. That's a six months' stay in Vermont for at least one partner. But couples in the throes of marital bliss rarely bother to read the fine print...
...aesthetic parents, brothers and sometimes offspring. But genius tends to be unpredictable, and a puzzling thing about Vermeer is that artistically he had no real progeny and no certain parentage. Nobody knows who taught him to paint, and his influence on younger Delft artists is too slight to bother with. He did no teaching, and no one imitated him. Moreover, most of the other Delft painters in his time (with one striking exception) pale by comparison with...