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Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat and The Pornography of Meat, drew fame in feminist-vegan-theory circles when she linked “species” oppression to gender oppression. She argues that the objectification of women and animals follow similar patterns: both the fairer sex and the four-legged set are sexualized, dehumanized and finally abused. FM caught up with her after she spoke at Quincy House and at the Law School last week...
...University of Miami and Harvard, criticizing President Bush and Attorney General John Ashcroft for their support and implementation of the Patriot Act, which he calls an unprecedented attack on civil liberties. While his characterization of radical feminists as a group whose “only claim to fame has been to urge a bunch of ugly women to march” drew boos and hisses from the Sanders crowd, the students generally applauded his defense of unlimited speech and sexual freedom...
Harvard attracts some big name speakers, giving students the chance to hear international luminaries, behind-the-scenes politicos and literary giants share their thoughts on the world. But what about seeing someone who, despite having earned international fame, still feels like a kind of homegrown hero...
...training 30 lbs. overweight from the baby, and she was really intimidated, but no way were we going to use quick cuts or CGI [computer graphics imaging]. Not in this movie." By the third week of her three-month training with master Yuen Wo-ping (of The Matrix fame), Thurman learned to treat the fight sequences like dance choreography, and things began to click. "Yeah, but once she got all the choreography down, we threw it all out," says Tarantino, laughing. "When it came to the actual bits in the movie, we just made...
...tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams, to whom she was a part-time personal assistant; after being shot as she sat in a van with her companion, Rolland Wormley, 28, outside a suspected drug house about a mile from the tennis courts where Venus and Serena rose to fame; in gang-plagued Compton, Calif. The motive for the shooting was unclear, but police arrested and charged an alleged gang associate, Aaron Michael Hammer, 24, with Price's murder...