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This cat looked ready for a nap. Rolling across the snowy plains, reclining in his chair, he simply didn't bother striking the pose of the combative candidate. A friend says, "Bill thinks a lot of what he's supposed to do on the trail is bull___." From that attitude springs the best and worst of the man--small transcendent moments like Wednesday's emotional health-care event and the cranky, can't-be-bothered-with-this attitude that makes people wonder why they should bother with...
...been less gold mine than minefield for Time Warner in the past few years. "We can change the way people interact with music, change the distribution medium," says Jonathan Sacks, the senior vice president who supervises the main AOL service. Contemplate a music company that no longer has to bother manufacturing or shipping CDs, or sharing revenue with retailers--one that distributes its music directly from its hard drive to yours...
...thought my team tightened and panicked instead of stepping it up," Delaney-Smith said. "That pressure should not bother us. We have beaten teams that have done far worse...
...chance to drive home their key messages, and push their agendas as vigorously as possible. No matter how dismal a showing the also-rans make, don't look for anyone to bow out in the next three weeks, says Dickerson. "Unless there's a serious problem, why bother dropping out at this point, so close to the primary?" Even the threat of a poor showing in the coming weeks isn't enough to weaken the underdogs' steely resolve to stick it out, he adds. "Candidates whose numbers could be so low as to be embarrassing seem to be impervious...
...need bother mocking or pitying the Irish; they do such a good job of it themselves. Frank McCourt beautifully juggled contempt and sympathy in his memoir of growing up poor and wet in Limerick in the '30s and '40s, before squandering the goodwill he had accrued with the taint of 'Tis (it'll be a while before that sour screed is filmed). Parker, who did right by the Irish in The Commitments, has a go at the impossible task of adapting Angela's Ashes and trying to satisfy all those who loved the book so much that McCourt's painful...