Word: bothering
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...However, when Samuels errs on the side of vulnerability, it’s hard to deny the anxiety that he feels about living in a world in which certainty has dissipated. “Why bother? Why get married? What are families for?” he asks his readers. “What was new about these questions was that they didn’t have answers, or that the answers they did have were so multiple and contingent and arbitrary that they never really felt like answers...
Such disdain for the democratic process raises a question: why bother with elections at all? Other African tyrannies have dispensed with the awkward trial of popular votes altogether, and ruled as unapologetic autocracies. So why the need for a veneer of respectability, however thin, in Zimbabwe? The answer lies in the psychology of Mugabe and his fellow liberation leaders, many of whom came from a background of elite academia. Mugabe himself has seven degrees, most of them earned during the 11 years he spent in prison when the country was called Rhodesia...
...It’s fine,” he says, tearing down a poster, nonplussed. “It doesn’t really bother me that much...
...things down. Princeton’s stake boat had trouble aligning the boats before the race and was forced to call a delay. “It could have been very stressful, but our boat was able to stay focused, relax, and they didn’t let that bother them,” Woodbin-Maynard said. “They got to practice a little bit. Princeton just sat there. They didn’t practice or move around.” Next week Radcliffe will return home to race on the Charles against MIT as the team gears...
...Street is named for a leading Tory general, William Brattle, who tipped off the Royal government when citizens started arming themselves in advance of the Revolution. Then he seized the rebels’ gunpowder and fled to Nova Scotia—great guy! And let’s not bother delving into the sins of Harvard’s philandering and racist former presidents, whose names adorn a multitude of Cambridge roads and University buildings...