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Sacrificing the integrity of the animal rights debate for a cheap laugh--it's the experimented-upon monkeys, and not Harvard students, who are demeaned by Melia's flippant comparison--Melia seems to suggest that "the lack of support" shown by Harvard students somehow invalidates the issue...
...didn't know whether to laugh or cry while I read Christina S.N. Lewis' "Not Gone with the Wind." (Column, April 19). I finally decided not to laugh...
...wrote that line. Wrote it and liked it and delivered it to a committee of my senior peers. At first, I thought this joke--as well as the rest of my tryout speech--was incisive and insightful, allowing my fellow seniors to laugh at their faults as they celebrated their successes. But then I gave the speech, and it came out jaded and spiteful--as bitter and poorly conceived as a mixed drink at the Hong Kong. The audience might have been more amused by excerpts from a Dairy Queen menu or a rhythmic display of armpit flatulence...
Fried dismissed this evidence with a quote from a law textbook that brought a laugh from an audience made up mainly of law students...
...interrupted to ask what fine institution the keg master attended during daylight hours, and when he replied Umass-Amherst, I playfully punched Josh’s arm and told Mister Keg that Josh and I attend UMass-Boston. He bought it, and Josh got his beer sans spittle. You laugh, but two friends later told me that they ditched their beer, finding it “funny tasting” after having been alma-mater - truthful...