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...Both tickets made much ado at their respective conventions about how America can be better, how we might change our nature and our image on the global stage. In Sen. Obama’s mind, the hope would seem to be that America might transcend its petty divisions and again become the exemplar of liberal government...
...Much ado has been made about the book. Beyond the bemusement of McClellan’s former comrades, former Sen. Bob Dole—getting sentimental in his old age—called its author a “miserable creature” who “cashed in,” while Democratic Congressman Robert Wexler has asked that McClellan officially bite the hand that fed him before the House Judiciary Committee. For his part, the former fall guy has only cited a new “loyalty to the truth,” one that supplants his former...
...audiences in the West, and resonates profoundly in postcommunist nations. But he is most alive for people of color. South Asians and Arabs and their diasporic peoples are Elizabethans still. In their world, children are parental possessions, marriages arranged, personal autonomy frowned upon. Strong women like Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing or Katherine the shrew must be tamed. Countless Juliets are bullied, beaten, even killed if they refuse to be despatched to a chosen bridegroom. They hear their own fathers in Capulet's warning to his rebellious daughter...
...Courses of True Love: Comic and Tragedy,” and even Shakespeare novices could appreciate the Elizabethan pickup lines. FM suggests that the next time you’re at the Delphic, try quoting Benedict (Samuel L. Linden ’10) from Much Ado About Nothing to get some action: “The world must be peopled!” Obviously Harvard students need some help with their game, because every seat in the Eliot Library was filled. Although there were certainly senior thesis writers who worship dear Will, many audience members were just looking...
...really got a lot of people exercised over something that was much ado about nothing,” he added...