Word: bothered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...THINK IT IS HARDER OR EASIER TO SHOCK AN AUDIENCE TODAY? I like to push people's buttons. I like to bother people's sacred values. It is not hard to do that with certain topics. I find the taboos of today are religion, the flag and children--the parent-child phenomenon. This cult of the child has developed, and the cult of the parent--which are to me appalling and overdone and probably dangerous for children...
...bother playing regular season games at all? What’s the point of all those games if it doesn’t matter where a team is seeded? Why try hard, if you’re a player, or attend a game, if you’re a fan, if Harvard will win as a No. 1 or a No. 12 seed? There doesn’t seem to be much of a difference in competition. Harvard is just better…than everyone...
...while this is a shame, the women’s team did not deserve to make it this year. Harvard lost, fair and square. The team that plays the best for an entire season should make the playoffs. Otherwise, why bother having a regular season at all? If only two weeks are needed to determine what teams advance to the national championship, why not just play a two-week season...
...five hours, get off the plane and Poof! I’m in Los Angeles. Magic! Tactile sensation, immediate contact, synaesthetic pleasure: These are the artifacts of old-fashioned travel that have been replaced by the passivity of the “commuter.” Even if I bother to look out the window somewhere over South Dakota, the enormous visual distance between me and the ground turns the world below into a series of grids, geometrical shapes and snaking lines. The landscape is pretty, but it’s not real...
Jonathan G. Sherman ’07 said he agrees that many students may not bother to redo their profiles and friendship networks...