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...such questions become more urgent, and as the animal-rights movement’s growing prominence drives us to rethink society??s use (and abuse) of animals, such dialogue becomes increasingly important. And, for a debate often conducted on the streets and in media headlines, the lecture theater offers a rare opportunity for critical analysis...
...light of our society??s pervasive equation of meat-eating with masculine dominance, such minglings of the anti-meat agenda with misogyny assume added complexity. The ostensible absurdity of a vegetarian weight-lifter exposes a deep-rooted cultural fiction: that men gain strength and virility through eating the flesh of other mammals. Although, from a nutritional standpoint, meat may do more to clog men’s arteries than to build their muscles, meat retains symbolic power: The slaughter and consumption of animal flesh serves as a means for men to assert their dominance over nature...
...rapist—not to mention an ear-biting demon in the ring—Tyson has a bad rap. Societal mores of compassion advocate human understanding in the face of seriously bad behavior; they tell us that people are complicated, that we should delve beneath the surface of society??s most troubled and attempt to connect. But for most people, the only way to interact with such a terrifying person is superficial at best.Documentary filmmaking provides the opportunity to truly deliver someone else’s reality, even if that person is as seemingly insane as Mike...
Kaoru Takasaki ’10, president of the Harvard Japan Society, said the store has supplied not only familiar snacks but also the ingredients for the society??s sushi and dessert making workshops...
...floor above. The walls are bare. As I interview him, my eyes fall upon Eliot’s Harvard Classics series on a small gray bookshelf nearby, their gold letters glittering against the red binding. On an adjacent bookshelf I see “General Education in a Free Society??—more commonly known as the Red Book, Harvard’s famous 1945 treatise that changed the face of American education...