Word: henrietta
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Many readers who have read David Mamet's new children's book, Henrietta, believe that his story of a hefty pig bluntly rejected from the Harvard Law School is an allusion to elitism and discrimination within the University...
...first significant interview he has given about his book, however, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright told The Crimson Friday that the political message behind Henrietta was on an entirely different subject altogether...
...story, Henrietta is rejected because she has no credentials save for an "honest and inquiring mind...
...Henrietta then studies in the University's libraries until she is "discovered one too many times" and barred permanently, a "No Pigs" sign hung over a gray and forbidding door...
...knew Henrietta the pig," Dershowitz says. "She was a cute, large pig...she would have fit in beautifully at Harvard Law School...