In the Senior English course I teach, we’re currently reading Hamlet. Teaching Shakespeare is always a challenge. Though I now find his work delightful, I definitely recall struggling with Macbeth and Julius Caesar in high school. The language of the plays, especially the tragedies, is often abstruse even when Shakespeare employs words that remain in [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Hamlet’
The Bard Redeemed
Posted in Culture, Education, tagged academics, books, drama, Hamlet, High School, Shakespeare on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Getting Paid: Updated
Posted in Economics, Politics, tagged Economics, economy, executive pay, executives, Hamlet, Lehman Brothers, Michael Eisner, money, Nicholas Kristof, NYtimes, Politics, Richard Fuld, This American Life on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nicholas Kristof of the Times has ‘awarded‘ his annual Michael Eisner Award for “corporate rapacity” to Richard Fuld, head of Lehman Brothers, the investment bank which just tumbled into oblivion. For the good deed of complete evaporating his shareholders’ assets, Fuld received the mere pittance of $45 million this year alone. During his tenure of [...]
