Word: repping
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There’s a certain amount of mystery in the air around the Literature department–or maybe that’s just the cigarette smoke. Lit’s got a rep for being one of Harvard’s more esoteric concentrations, filled with artsy Advocate-ians and worldly European ex-pats who spend all day at the wrought-iron tables outside Boylston Hall, arguing about Kafka in a dozen foreign languages and smoking whatever’s at hand. But don’t stress—the passport and drug habits are all optional...
...music is more popular than ever. Chamillionaire is ridin’ the airwaves with his Houston swagger; Kanye West and Pharrell Williams, two producers-turned-rappers, have made hip hop accessible to a wider audience through their collaborations with rock and pop artists; and Jay-Z continues to rep Brooklyn on the mike, even though he supposedly retired three years...
...palates. But Americans raise horses for racing, work or companionship, and polls show a large majority of the public finds slaughtering them for a gourmet dinner to be repugnant. "It's one of the most inhumane, brutal and shady practices going on in the United States today," complains Republican Rep. John Sweeney, who sponsored the measure to ban the sale and transport of horses to the slaughterhouses. Sweeney's congressional district includes the Saratoga Springs harness racing track...
...importantly, the American Veterinary Medical Association has come out against the ban, fearing rescue shelters would be swamped with hundreds of thousands of unwanted horses while others would be sold to unregulated slaughterhouses overseas and brutalized even more. The U.S. ban "does not solve problems, it creates problems," complains Rep. Bob Goodlatte, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, which is almost unanimously opposed to the measure...
...statement released to The Crimson, U.S. Rep Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R.-Fla., said that Khatami’s appearance at the Kennedy School is an “affront to all freedom loving people at Harvard...