Word: bothers
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...skeptical look and occasional off-hand comment don’t seem to bother the girls in either place, even though sometimes when other squads see them wearing shirts emblazoned with “Harvard” they think it’s a joke...
...fear not, I do feel ashamed at getting caught up in this hateful display towards women—men don’t get a great run either, but the stereotypes for women are often archaic. In trying to rationalize my enjoyment, I don’t bother with the debate as to whether these programs are scripted or simply acted out. In the end, our gravest generalizations about the sexes are confirmed regardless: Men choose blondes, women choose money and the rest get kicked off the island...
Although I noticed this linguistic phenomenon early in my Harvard career, it didn’t bother me very much. After all, the young men of our acquaintance weren’t “men”; they were “guys.” Weren’t “guys” and “girls” roughly equivalent in their slangy informality? And wasn’t calling ourselves “girls” and “guys” rather than “men?...
...read about me and my family?"--typically yields to pleasure rather than embarrassment. Jean-Marie Maier was startled at first when strangers entered a contest she put on her pregnancy blog to guess how much her newborn would weigh. "It's weird that people we don't know would bother," says Maier, 32, a marketing consultant in Sunrise, Fla. Yet the encouraging responses she has received have been so positive, Maier doesn't mind...
...distraction from the steroid scandal that is making people want their money back from the home-run explosion of the past few years. The scandal didn't land within fungo distance of him, but Rodriguez, a company guy all the way, claims competing against cheaters doesn't bother him--only partly because he has led the American League in homers the past three years anyway. "I'm a strong believer in innocent until proven guilty," he says. "I've never assumed any other players were on steroids. I've never felt cheated...