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...note that attorney Steven Wise, the self-proclaimed champion of animal rights [AMERICAN SCENE, March 13], does not defend the rights of all animals. Instead, Wise has created his own non-Darwinian continuum to argue for legal rights for only certain animals--the more a species is like humans, the more deserving it is of legal rights. Yet there is a danger in this approach. For it means the less like us, the less likely that legal rights would be granted. We don't live in an "us vs. them" world. We live in a world of "us and them...
...revolt. The mutiny was ultimately put down when the remaining crew secretly steered the boat to Montauk, N.Y., and the Africans were taken into custody. They eventually went free when the U.S. Supreme Court declared their enslavement illegal. More than a century and a half later, director Steven Spielberg told the tale on film--modern America's equivalent of a marble monument to the event...
...Steven C. Wofsy, Rotch professor of atmospheric and environmental science, calls it "user-hostile...
...wardrobe is about as subtle as Steven Soderberg's grandstanding movie gets. As the real-life paralegal who uncovered a public-health scandal and helped win the largest civil judgment ever, Roberts gets to tell off lawyers, clerks, her decent boss (Albert Finney) and her faultless boyfriend (Aaron Eckhart) from the righteous perch of her 3-in. heels. And the bras that peek above her sweaters--they're more colorful than a Disney cartoon production number. They also provide the movie's only true uplift...
Derrick's pleasure in recalling his own trip to East Africa with W & L two years ago inspired him to sign on with his grandsons this year, the first time the university has opened up the trip to youngsters. Escorted by science professor Steven Desjardins, the group will safari into the great parks of Tanzania to see animals most Americans have viewed only in captivity or as cartoons. Children have an affinity for other children, so the itinerary also includes young humans--the travelers spend a day at a school in Arusha and share a meal of porridge and vegetables...