Word: hamlet
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...certainly relevant to our modern world and should be a proposed requirement in the field, “The United States and the World.” You would be astonished at the number of Harvard undergraduates who have never fired a semi-automatic firearm but can quote Hamlet. We need less of this touchy-feely stuff...
...immensely far away. Yet Anzac Day ceremonies and battlefield pilgrimages are more popular than ever?and even the indifferent can't ignore the memorials in every town. When Les Carlyon passes one, "I find I just stop and read the names," he says. "You might be in a little hamlet in the bush and you'll see the same name three times, and you think, They might be brothers, cousins. Maybe a father and his sons. It still affects...
Etzioni originally dubbed the site Hamlet after its To Buy or Not to Buy motto. Net squatters wanted $100,000 for the hamlet.com address, though, so the outfit instead bought the more logical farecast.com for small change. In the Web's early days, it was SOP to pay millions for addresses like business.com No more. "In the '90s, start-ups were drinking Kool-Aid," Etzioni says. "Now we're drinking coffee...
...Also, it’s best to leave out all inside jokes when talking among your friends and parents. It’ll make them very uncomfortable if they ask your friend why she became an English concentrator, only to have someone reply, “because she loves Hamlet,” followed by resounding laughter by everyone but the parents...
...creative tinkering. Ives’ short work, “Words, Words, Words,” is a humorous postmodern farce that contemplates the age-old question, “What are the chances that three chimps in captivity on typewriters will reproduce ‘Hamlet?’” The humor comes from a myriad of literary references, including the chimps’ constant, oblivious mutterings of Shakespearean lines.Playing the three monkeys, Jay D. Musen ’09 was head-on with every deadpan joke while Kathleen E. Hale ’09 and Rory...