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...more importantly, Assassin teaches undergraduates how easily the raptor succeeds. Students often remind me of my chickens, twisting heads sideways and down to see with single eyes, always facing the light while scratching, never enjoying the stereo view of hawks and owls and eagles. Like my hens cooped north of my barn, students raised in safe, nurturing environments expect little danger from outside let alone within, and when trouble erupts--the automatic feeder capsizes or a gunfight develops outside Holyoke Center--behavior becomes chaotic. Hens explode from hen house, students run in circles or gawk at shooters (although one dropped...

Author: By Professor JOHN R. stilgoe, | Title: IN THE MEANTIME | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...more importantly, Assassin teaches undergraduates how easily the raptor succeeds. Students often remind me of my chickens, twisting heads sideways and down to see with single eyes, always facing the light while scratching, never enjoying the stereo view of hawks and owls and eagles. Like my hens cooped north of my barn, students raised in safe, nurturing environments expect little danger from outside let alone within, and when trouble erupts--the automatic feeder capsizes or a gunfight develops outside Holyoke Center--behavior becomes chaotic. Hens explode from hen house, students run in circles or gawk at shooters (although one dropped...

Author: By Professor JOHN R. stilgoe, | Title: Why Not Assassin? | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...evening came at the end with Ottorino Respighi's The Birds, a piece incorporating the voices of four birds. MSO charmed the audience as it took on the voices of these birds one by one. From the graciousness of the dove to the sharp call of the hen MSO showed off its talents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BIRDS SING IN PAINE | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

...hen he looked up, he observed one suspect standing over him with what appeared to be a silver knife but the blade was not exposed," according to an HUPD bulletin...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Group Chases Student Through Slippery Streets | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

...commercial ends with the same guy taking his beer-winner to the bowling alley. We may see more of this bionic hen soon...

Author: By Bryan Lee, | Title: Incompetent Ferrets Entertain, but Super Bowl Even Better | 1/30/1998 | See Source »

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