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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Dear Sir—I was told by another party that your institution conducted an egg laying contest with the result that the leading hen in the contest (a big white hen) made the phenomenal record of 337 eggs in 365 days. If this be true please let me know and if the party to whom this hen belongs will sell eggs from...

Author: By Kristin E. Kitchen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mr. Byron Satterlee Hurlbut | 4/18/2002 | See Source »

...list of inconsistencies is endless. As far as cruelty is concerned, one need look no further than the life of a battery hen or factory-farmed pig, where death must come as a reprieve. And how is it that no one worries about animals that, for sport and fun, are yanked to their deaths on hooks rammed through their faces - and please let's not hear about cold-blooded animals feeling no pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going in for The Kill | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

Forget about including "moderate" Taliban members in a new government in Afghanistan [THE WAR, Oct. 29]. As you noted, to many of us the phrase moderate Taliban is oxymoronic. Why put the fox in the hen house? MAGGIE MCHUGH Alexandria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 19, 2001 | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

...seemingly disparate committee members will have to hang together until December 19?hen their report is due to University President-elect Lawrence H. Summers?nd last week? meeting marked the beginning of the group? mission to fuse economic principles with concepts of moral responsibility to form a viable set of recommendations about how Harvard should pay its poorest workers...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University Makes Sense of Living Wage Figure | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

...stage and performed some slickly choreographed pop confections. Perhaps this was a subtle underscoring of the message of the evening. Four young lads adrift in the world... "fragile lives" needing some mature sensible parenting and a role model for how to be grown-up. Step forward the ultimate mother-hen Madonna. Always willing to take young boys under her angelic wings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doing the Oscar Bash | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

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