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...House floor was one to look out for the welfare of horses. Democrats stampeded to complain. "I'm concerned about horses, but I'm much much more concerned about the American people," snapped House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer. Others threatened to vote "neigh" just to get in a pun...
...hold your horses. (And that is this story's last pun. Promise). Few bills have stirred more passion, pro and con, than the Horse Slaughter Prevention Act. It passed the House by a vote of 263-146 Thursday (with a large majority of Democrats supporting it, even though they griped that the chamber had more pressing matters). Here's the issue: about 90,000 horses are sent each year to three plants in this country (two in Texas and one in Illinois, all foreign-owned), where they're slaughtered and the meat is shipped to restaurants in Europe and Asia...
...course had increased their interest in the sciences.“It was an enormous amount of work and what made this work was that it was so fulfilling,” Lue says. “The team is amazing, we really have tremendous—no pun intended—chemistry.”—Staff writer Lulu Zhou can be reached at luluzhou@fas.harvard.edu...
...instances—the most glaring of which is Drake’s decision to sexualize the Queen of Hearts (Lauren L. Jackson ’07). While this has the potential to be an interesting departure from the traditional chubby ball-buster, it is not executed well (no pun intended), and ultimately comes off as not within the spirit of the book, and more than a bit odd.The most unique aspect of the production is its staging, where a fascination with the spaces formed in theater is manifest. This is primarily the achievement of Production and Set Designer Melissa...
...available through the Harvard Box Office, (617) 495-2222. $6 students; $10 for general. For those audience members who might think that the title of the Harvard Ballet Company’s (HBC) spring show, “Pointe/Counterpointe” is simply a clever, if slightly hackneyed, pun, HBC’s Facebook group promoting the show assures that such is not the case. According to a blurb on the website, the show will fulfill viewers’ hopes if they have “ever wanted to see what happens when ballet dancers took off those pointe...