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Gertrude and Claudius is engrossing enough on its own terms to stand independently of Shakespeare's play. But those readers who know Hamlet will find Updike's novel an echo chamber of beguiling allusions. "You protest too much," her husband-to-be tells young Gertrude, a sentiment she will repeat during her life onstage. And the doom awaiting Updike's people lends their deeds a tragic cast...
...know young people commit more crimes than older folks, so the baby boomers' grandchildren should stop playing Sega and start menacing the rest of us any day now. But that indicator too is unreliable. Many of these "echo boom" youngsters reached their teens during the 1990s, yet crime still plummeted. Experts say the good economy gave these kids something to do (even if it was just taking orders at McDonald's instead of robbing it). More important, the decline of crack removed a crime-soaked job opportunity...
...came from all sectors--conservatives, moderates, liberals. It was a win for the message." His chorus of well-prepped advisers agreed. "Message is still important," said McCain strategist Mike Murphy. "And the McCain message is clearly the message that Republican Party voters have embraced." In politics this kind of echo-chamber flackery is called being on message. And as McCain and his staff pointed their famous Straight Talk Express toward South Carolina, the message they were on was--well, their message. The message is their message. Or is it the other way around...
...around about a particular class and people who've never spoken will echo each other's assessments, sometimes even using the same phrases. How is it that 500 people in a lecture class independently come to the conclusion that "the lectures are archaic, the head TF sounds like Marge Simpson, the midterm was hard and the professor is brilliant but incomprehensible...
...problem, they claim, lies in what appears to be an innocuous clause of the "Brown Standards of Student Conduct." Section IIB of the standards states that "behavior which shows flagrant disrespect for the well-being of others" can be subject to disciplinary action--a close echo of Harvard College's own guidelines, which specify punishment for "grave disrespect to the dignity of others...