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...writing about one of the flashiest heresies of his time and marshaling as arguments unbelievably positive things about Jews. As I read further, my scalp tingled. I had been working on Augustine for 20 years and I'd never seen anything like this before. Not only could I establish that he had changed his position, but I could locate this shift in his thinking very precisely, to the four-year period when he also wrote his monumental Confessions...
Hoffmann, a towering figure in the government department, began teaching at Harvard in 1955. Since then, he founded the CES in 1968 and helped to establish the committee on degrees in Social Studies...
Somalia's Struggles Yes, the Somali Islamic government had its faults [Nov. 24]. But you left out that after 15 years with no government, Somali businessmen created one to establish some order. They succeeded and actually stopped piracy. But the U.S. and Ethiopian militaries attacked the nation's hospitals and civilians and destroyed the government, bringing back piracy - not to mention possibly the worst refugee conditions in the world. Don Lairs, AUSTIN, TEXAS...
...Waldau advocates an incremental approach. For over a decade, he’s served as the Vice-President of the Great Apes Project, a global coalition pushing for basic legal rights for chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans. The campaign hopes to establish legal rights to life, liberty, and freedom from torture for our closest evolutionary cousins; many hope these rights could then be extended to other animals...
...Wise’s strategy is more radical. He once listed a dolphin named Rainbow as the plaintiff in a lawsuit against an aquarium, and he hopes to establish animals as legal persons in future suits—he argues that if corporations and ships can already be persons before the law, it is absurd that animals cannot. Wise believes that until animals achieve legal personhood, even the strongest welfare laws will be undermined by animals’ property status—right now, there is no such thing as “animal rights law” he notes...