Word: bothered
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World's fairs, those jamborees of national output--what ever happened to them? The Belgian waffles, the Futurama architecture, it all used to seem so important. Yet the U.S. didn't even bother to erect a pavilion for the one last year in Hanover, Germany. And, really, why should it have? Who needs to stand in line outside a geodesic dome to find out what America produces? Who needs a product-display center to discover Lucinda Williams? Or a monorail to take you to Philip Roth or Tom Ford? Anywhere in the world you find a movie screen...
...power of fiction, and his energy shows no signs of flagging. His office is a study on his Connecticut property about 60 yds. from his house: "I work at my job the way most human beings work at jobs; I start mornings and quit evenings." Bad reviews no longer bother him: "I'm sometimes frustrated by my own efforts but not by the public response. Once a book is out of your hands, readers make of it what they will...
...firm that produces one of China's most popular beers. Police last year sentenced him to a year in a Beijing prison for practicing Falun Gong, and relatives say he was tortured when he refused to disavow his beliefs. Chen is due for release this week. He needn't bother asking for his old job back. "If a person can't work, then we have to find someone else," explains Wang Hong, head of human resources for Carlsberg...
Villaraigosa, 48, a former labor organizer, certainly had plenty of baggage. A former street tough who grew up in East L.A., he had out-of-wedlock kids and failed the state bar exam four times. But Hahn didn't bother with any of that. He had all he needed in a letter Villaraigosa wrote to the White House in 1996, seeking a presidential pardon for convicted drug trafficker Carlos Vignali, whose father was a campaign contributor. Before the election, Hahn hammered Villaraigosa for a solid week with a TV ad showing images of a crack-cocaine pipe, a copy...
...takes a lot (including peepholes in every door and 24-hour room service) to qualify for a Mobil five-star rating, and most hotels don't even bother trying. But the current owners of the Jefferson believed five stars were essential to the hotel's success. This year, for the first time in its 105-year history, the Jefferson made it, becoming one of 17 U.S. hotels to hold both a Mobil five-star and a AAA five-diamond rating...