Word: bothered
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...TIME.comix: I notice that the movie version altered certain aspects of your life. Did that bother...
Concerned seniors should ask themselves some tough questions: Do traffic distractions at intersections confuse me? Does glare bother me? Do I get lost a lot? Am I taking any medications that could affect my alertness? For drivers over 55, the Automobile Association of America offers a quiz on the Web (at aaafoundation.org/quizzes and over the phone (407-444-7913). Senior drivers.org offers an even more user-friendly site. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety makes literature available (call...
...costly war in Iraq brought a slide from surplus - that is so mid-'90s! - to a record $455 billion deficit in just three years, with the likelihood of further borrowing next year. With the U.K. government having declared record holes in its public finances last week, why would anyone bother to observe that fusty old Growth and Stability Pact? Ian Stewart, chief European economist at Merrill Lynch, is even trying to tell Europeans they look good in red. Tax cuts in the U.S. might have gone too far, but euro-zone countries should feel free to give breaks of their...
...Earle has come to prefer another metaphor. "I'm the gatekeeper," he says. "I don't dare ask my boss, the public, to sit in judgment of somebody that I don't think deserves to die. That's why they elect me, to exercise that judgment and not bother them." Buried in that philosophy is something radical--the notion that the jury system, as it's currently constructed, can't be trusted to send only the guilty to death row. Most prosecutors wouldn't embrace that philosophy, which is why it may take an Earle, not a knight, to slay...
...role as a student to think about how you would feel about this issue if you were black? This is a core problem with O'Connor's diversity rationale. It suggests that only a black person can articulate what it means to be black and that others shouldn't bother to try. Further, O'Connor suggests that simply by attending a law school with a "critical mass" of blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans, you come away understanding the perspectives of minor-ities. But the fact is, a Michigan Law School student would learn a lot more about the "unique experience...