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The play's the thing for FSR exec

Whiting promotes Shakespeare through 'Will on the Hill' Whiting Most high schoolers study Shakespeare, and Rich Whiting was no exception. The bard's words stuck. He readily recalls one of Hamlet's lines and its impact on him: "That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain." "Studying that line with a teacher, just for the first time it made apparent to me the difference between what is and what appears to be," said Whiting, executive director and general counsel at Financial Services Roundtable. "I think Shakespeare is a great vehicle for exposing students to a lot of those insights into life." Today, Whiting combines his love of theater with an only-in-Washington… Read More