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Thomas, a word-arranging aficionado since the age of 14, entered the subculture of competitive Scrabble in the summer of 2001 at the Memphis Scrabble Club. At Harvard, Thomas hones his wordplay skills at the Sunday night meetings of the Harvard Scrabble Club, of which he is the founder and president. Among his favorite Scrabble moments was a victory over a master who started the match with the word ingesta (definition: “that which is introduced into the body by the stomach or alimentary canal”). However, Thomas is no braggart. “Most...
...Wants to be a Millionaire?” contestant to a varsity placekicker totally destroying his sports-columnist antagonist in a field goal contest; from two guys in Quincy playing Scrabble to three guys in Dunster playing a game which uses Scrabble tiles. Satiate your lust for blood and wordplay with: The Games Harvard Plays...
...before Pakistan, Commencement—and Yasin’s long-awaited speech—remain. When it is suggested that the controversy is one big misunderstanding, an extended exercise in wordplay, Yasin subtly acknowledges that things could have been handled differently—but mostly sticks to his guns...
...explicit sign-off they’re looking for,” but he feels it is justified. The sentence he agreed to add, furthermore, was simply added to a paragraph in a similar vein that was already there. And while he will say that there has been some wordplay through the controversy—the speech’s title has now been changed because of a fear that having the word jihad upfront would distract the audience from the speech’s message, he says, perhaps tellingly—he does not regret his decision...
...rapper, Eminem has always shown a talent for wordplay, but on his previous work, the lines between his characters--and those characters' broader meanings--were pretty fuzzy. On The Eminem Show, however, the three personalities fit together like a set of Russian nesting dolls. Slim Shady is the raging fantasy id, a nightmare projection of overprotective parents and the devil on the shoulder of teenage rebels. Eminem, meanwhile, functions as the voice of present-tense reality. He's the rapper who has run-ins with the law, an unraveling marriage and a nose for politics. At the wounded core...