Word: bothered
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...like George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts. But not one of the year's Top 10 moneymakers featured an A-list star, unless you count Eddie Murphy's voice in the animated Shrek. Are studio execs wising up? "A lot of people in the movie business don't bother to ask, 'Will the audience accept a star in this part?'" notes Stacey Snider, chairman of Universal, who nixed the idea of casting a star like Ryan or Roberts as the female lead in A Beautiful Mind--which is shaping up as a hit nevertheless. Of course, that fellow Russell...
...Ling, the U.S.-based poet, has just been arrested while trying to distribute copies of a literary magazine. Why, Buruma asks, if exiles are so marginalized should the government fear a "minor poet and editor of an obscure literary journal?" If dissidents are unimportant, why does the government bother with them? They matter, Buruma elegantly concludes, because of the challenge they pose to the government's monopoly on truth. Only when that monopoly is broken will craziness start to look sane again...
...Mike Velarde?worry about him. "He's not good at being on his own. He doesn't like to read, and watching the news just upsets him," says an insider. When the crowd is gone and his phone stops ringing, he lapses into long periods of silence. So why bother suffering through this? Why not just leave? Why not do a Fujimori or pull a Peron and head for a friendly country? "I'd rather face all the charges than leave the country," he says. "If I was guilty of what they accuse me, I would have run away...
...would have an AI of 225 (the AI is calculated by assigning a score of one through 80 to the highest SAT I score, the highest SAT II score and class rank). He mentions, casually, that the Ivy League threshold for athletes is 169, but doesn’t bother breaking down that number. Allow me: Mr. 169 would have had an 1120 SAT (with a corresponding AI of 56), a 570 SAT II Writing test (57), and a class rank of 115 out of 400 (56). In other words, a Texas A&M candidate...
...best, Sigafoos presents a tall presence in the post and provides several easy baskets a game. This season, however, he has seen his minutes limited by Coleman’s return and by nagging injuries, including a foot problem that will likely bother him all season. Despite shooting 57 percent from the field, Sigafoos is averaging only 2.5 points and 1.2 rebounds a game...