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Before I left for college my first year, my parents bade me heed the advice of Polonius, one of the wise fools in Shakespeare's Hamlet. As his son, Laertes, prepares to leave for France, Polonius leaves him with two pieces of wisdom, "Neither a borrower nor a lender be," and "to thine own self be true...
...credit cards, care packages and family visits that might help me make the transition from Dallas to the East more smoothly. But, despite my anticipated (and realistic) longings for the creature comforts of home, a look back at first year convinces me that both my parents and old Polonius knew what they were talking about. As a veteran of roommate wars over the surreptitiously borrowed and later stained white shirt or formal dress, I will be the first to say that borrowing and lending can have their disadvantages...
...rather than get myself into confusing situations, I have found that when I am true to myself, as Polonius suggests, I have had great times at Harvard--eating picante sauce with Cape Cod potato chips, dating whom I want, even if he might be from the East Coast, and being honest with my friends...
...continent against the direction of old westering tracks 30,000 ft. below. Inside the plane, the clerisy of "spin," that is, the priesthood of partisans sent around to see reporters after major campaign events and impart the right spin, have done their work up and down the aisles, like Polonius and Hamlet discussing the ! shapes of clouds. The candidate is dozing up front. The jackals of the press have settled into their routines of mild carousal...
...between what might have been drama, several supporting players, less perverted by innovation, give several memorable performances. Katherine Robin gives the most consistently impressive performance as Ophelia, giving us the most genuinely poignant sense of tragedy. For indispensible comic relief, don't miss Andrew Watson as the bumbling Polonius and Jim Caudle as the irreverent Gravedigger...