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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...fact, this theme of minor elements succeeding while major aspects fail becomes the model for Hamlet. In one characteristic self-berating monologue, Hawke scrutinizes James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause, asking, "What would he do?"-something which nicely crystallizes Hamlet's vacillation. Hamlet screaming at Gertrude to "Leave wringing of your hands" as she dives for a telephone, and placing a recording wire on Ophelia so Polonius can eavesdrop on her conversation with Hamlet are all commendable directorial choices, but the work becomes spoiled with major misinterpretation. As the play was origianlly written, Hamlet chooses not to kill Claudius...

Author: By James Crawford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Melancholy Shame | 5/12/2000 | See Source »

...between the soundbites also disappears. Students say sweatshops mistreat the workers, companies say they don't--how is this meaningful without further information? If students provide more information and the factories refuse to reciprocate--effectively refusing to fight the war on anything but a soundbite level--how can we fail to recognize this itself as the problem...

Author: By Maryanthe E. Malliaris, | Title: Reading Between The Lines | 5/10/2000 | See Source »

...reason for the campaign's comparative financial success may be that other groups simply fail to take advantage of their alumni resources...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Who Funds Kyle? | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

According to Campus Life Committee Co-Chair Stephen N. Smith '02, the new amendment--proposed by former council Vice President Samuel C. Cohen '00--will also fail...

Author: By David C. Newman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yet Again, Anemic Attendence Afflicts Council | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

VAWA, therefore, has garnered strong support both from Congress and from the states themselves. It deserves the support of Harvard students as well ˆ we should not fail to recognize the significant impact VAWA can have on our lives. The aforementioned U.S. v. Morrison concerns a rape case at Virginia Tech: when denied proper legal proceedings at the university, the plaintiff was able to use VAWA to seek damages. Acknowledged or not, rape and other forms of gender violence constitute a problem that penetrates without compunction the ivy walls surrounding our own campus. Both enduring and watching others endure...

Author: By Alixandra E. Smith, | Title: When Women Are At Stake | 5/5/2000 | See Source »

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