Word: casse
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...challenging as it may seem to apply ethical standards to animal practices, one professor sees a simple solution: enforce the law. “There is a real gap in the laws governing animal rights,” Cass R. Sunstein ’75, Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School, said before a packed audience in Sever Hall last night. Sunstein, part of a panel of philosophers and legal scholars addressing the intersection of ethics and the treatment of animals, argued that animal cruelty would continue to persist unless individuals and society...
...package includes 12 weeks of maternity leave for female graduate students, under which mothers continue to receive financial support while on leave, according to Princeton spokeswoman Cass Cliatt...
...John Phillips, 25, an Annapolis dropout, is the group's songsmith, and what his lyrics lack in depth his melodies make up in lilting appeal. Phillips' wife Michelle, a willowy ex-model, is the spiraling soprano; Denny Doherty, 24, sings a secure tenor. Anchor girl is rotund (200 lbs.) Cass Elliot, 23, whose ringing contralto gives the quartet its oomph. Together they build a buoyant vocal blend that floats easily through intricate harmonic shifts, toying with rhythms that are as fresh and bracing as ocean breezes. The quartet is now on a highly successful college tour, stands to make...
...seminal 1960s pop foursome known for its tuneful harmonies on such hits as California Dreamin', Monday, Monday and Dedicated to the One I Love; after a short illness following stomach surgery; in Mississauga, Ont. The collegial but incestuous group--which included arranger-songwriter John Phillips, his wife Michelle and Cass Elliot--famously began to self-destruct after the disclosure that Doherty and Michelle Phillips had been having an affair...
...Cass Sunstein earns his living researching how misplaced fears skewer our ability to assess risk, so he figured himself the last person to fall into the same trap. But when his teenage daughter planned a long-distance swim last summer, Sunstein found himself dwelling on the remote possibility she would drown. "It's crazy," says Sunstein, a University of Chicago law professor specializing in risk regulation. "But I couldn't counteract my brain's rapid, intuitive emotional system for evaluating risk...