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...animals. In Spain, the conservative Popular Party has decried the project as a poor use of the parliament's time and energy as Spain's once-booming economy starts to decline. And the Catholic Church has spoken out against the Project for eroding the Biblical hierarchy that gives humans dominion over the earth. "This is either a ridiculous society or a dislocated one," said the Archbishop of Pamplona. "Asking for human rights for monkeys is like asking for bull rights...
...some are skeptical. James Koch, former president of both the University of Montana and Old Dominion University, in Norfolk, Va., warns that despite the savings in production costs compared with traditional textbooks, Flat World will likely have smaller margins and thus the start-up could struggle to attract more authors. "I just don't see how they will be able to offer equal compensation," says Koch, who has studied the textbook industry extensively. "Their utopian approach is based on the hope that real economics don't apply...
Belatedly, the animal protection movement is remembering this noble legacy. In 2002, Matthew Scully, a devout Catholic and senior speech writer to President Bush, published Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy, an elegant moral tome against animal abuse. Today, volunteers of the Christian Vegetarian Association hand out leaflets entitled “Are We Good Stewards of God’s Creation?” at mega-churches and Christian rock concerts across the nation...
...Nearly every single interaction in the book is framed as a power struggle, and it all reads so true. As Keith’s explains his run-in with a cop, “I could see him trying to think of some way to keep me under his dominion, for just another minute. But I was too old, I was too confident.” When Celeste refuses to leave her boyfriend, Mark consoles himself with the assertion that “he could wreck him.” When Sam abandons his novel and stops writing for journals...
...concentration of society’s brightest minds and best resources. Synergistic cooperation, not fragmentation and isolation, are generative of academic discovery. To assail the Ivies for “stealing” teachers from their more minimally endowed peers is to imply that these professors are the dominion of public universities. Yet, these professors do not belong to public institutions any more than they do to the Ivies. Rather, they choose to teach at Harvards, Yales, and Princetons because of the intellectual opportunities that such positions afford. Indeed, the meritocratic sensibilities of American education dictate that the best educators...