Word: bothered
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Some would suggest it was a silly question to bother her with, at this stage in a brilliant career; a little like pestering a star athlete who has led his team to a brace of championships about his religious preference. National Guard Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer had earned a Bronze Star for supervising a hospital during the Vietnam War; in 1985 the Veterans Administration named her Nurse of the Year over 34,000 other candidates; and most recently, she had served as chief nurse of the Washington National Guard. But somebody's curiosity got the better of him: during a security...
...remarks] don't faze me; I could care lesswhat they think," she says. "If someone didanything threatening that would be a problem.Remarks don't bother me--it's too bad they'reignorant...
...were willing to bargain and sacrifice inorder to get this proposal into a from where itcould pass in CUE," Garofalo said. "And no oneever total us not to bother...
...presentation of Guinier's own arguments directly after the quoted views of her critics drives home Stephen Carter's point that "many of the reporters who covered the Guinier story did not bother to read the scholarship about which they were writing...". In proof of this, an entire essay is devoted to the case against quotas, or what the author terms "tokenism." Here she argues persuasively that focusing on the number of Black representatives elected replaces political with electoral outcomes as the major cause for concern. For example, "one Black elected official proportionately represented on a small city council operating...
...past, it has sometimes beenHarvard's leaders who bother the first-years...