On board during the week, there will be everything from art auctions and hairy-chest contests to seminars on cellulite and inch loss.
And what seems sure to unfold is a loud chest-thumping contest as the rivals put forward competing claims about the relative benefits of the three drugs.
But the actual issue that provoked the finger-in-the-chest-poking contest was the Parliament's first scandal, where Reid's lobbyist son Kevin had been caught in the open boasting of his influence: "I know the secretary of state very, very well because he's my father," trilled Kevin into the hidden tape recorder of an undercover reporter posing as an American businessman.
Platform-committee meetings are chest-thumping contests between warring clans within the parties; in exchange for conceding, defeated candidates tend to have a lot of influence over the platform.
Overall it's awesome to encounter other women because while you grow accustomed to quirks of a room full of men (the jostling, the chest beating, the pissing contests, the egos, etc). it does get old.
I do not wish to see the cup degenerate into an entrepreneur's ego contest with the biggest war chest determining victory.
On the weekend that Zsa Zsa, "an English bulldog with a bodacious tongue that dangles down to her chest", won the world's ugliest dog contest, her countrymen scored six at the World Cup.
The job meant targeting winnable races, helping to discover promising candidates and building a war chest that could put on-the-bubble contests in play.
In last Saturday's contest, Mormeck bobbed and weaved and managed to get chest to chest with Wladimir, but Klitschko tied him up and then deftly pivoted away.
The veteran landed the first punch of the contest, but his left to the chest was of little consequence.
