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Grant, Jon A. Daniels ’03 and Noah C. Eisenkraft ’04 demonstrate how the game is played, arranging two sets of Scrabble tiles face-down on the table. A player flips up one tile at a time, until someone calls out a word??at least four letters—that he has formed from the visible letters. Most of the time they don’t keep score; it’s just for fun. You can keep score by either a) counting up the points on the Scrabble tiles (which hardly ever...
It’s not that my kids torment me—that would be too strong a word??it’s more like they try to make my life as difficult as possible. Every decision is questioned, and every activity, no matter how much fun, is grounds for moaning and criticism. Why can’t we do long jumps over the coffee tables in the lobby? Why can’t we buy swords at the Renaissance Festival? Do you have to punish me for starting a food fight in the cafeteria...
...exploration of the word holocaust, which has taken on such unfortunate semantic connotations since the horrible events of 1939-1945 in Europe. While unequivocally condemning the actions of the Germans in World War II—actions that “hijacked” the meaning of his favorite word??Webster has pointed out that “holocaust” did not always have the stigma of being connected to arguably the greatest concentration of organized evil in human history. Originally, he says, holocaust was just a word, and with that in mind, Webster feels that...
...glad to hear that Commencement would include an oration by Zayed M. Yasin ‘02, who has chosen to speak on the original spiritual meaning of jihad. And I was glad to see the University support Yasin’s attempt to reclaim the word??s holy meaning...
...glad to hear that Commencement would include an oration by Zayed M. Yasin ‘02, who has chosen to speak on the original spiritual meaning of jihad. And I was glad to see the University support Yasin’s attempt to reclaim the word??s holy meaning...