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Actor, activist and aerobics guru Jane Fonda challenged Harvard to study the victimization and empowerment of teenage girls in a speech at the Graduate School of Education last night...
...Wise is serious about the work and, the more you think about it, reasonable. His ideas, at any rate, may be evaluated by reading his new book on animal rights, Rattling the Cage (Perseus Books; $25). Jane Goodall, in a foreword, declares it to be "the animals' Magna Carta." It is by turns eloquent, funny and pedantically legalistic--dense with philosophical and legal history, and with the sometimes bizarre case law of humans and animals. Wise explores the legal basis for granting certain common-law protections and rights to certain nonhuman animals--only a few, really, notably the remarkably intelligent...
...some hits cry out for sequels, whereas other books are fine just as they are. We may occasionally wonder what happens after Elizabeth Bennett marries Mr. Darcy (after all, he's kind of difficult), but Jane Austen's subsequent novels are variations on a theme, not repetitions of one. With her modern-day version of Pride and Prejudice, on the other hand, Fielding got caught in the vise of a lucrative contract and a punishing deadline, and the new book has an air of desperation. With the same diary format, complete with alcohol and cigarette logs, and the same wacky...
...team, under Coach Jim Floerchinger, will have to do a lot more developing in the next month. The team started practicing together only recently. Freshman Jane Humphries, who scored a number of goals this weekend, did so in her collegiate debut after a busy swimming season...
...time to indulge in a little self-satisfaction. Unbeknown to McCain, his supporters passed out a song sheet with words written to the tune of the Elvis hit Are You Lonesome Tonight? The lyrics were a broadside aimed at Arizona's Republican Governor Jane Hull, who had not only backed Bush but also publicly embarrassed McCain by pointing to his famous temper. "Are you lonely tonight as you're losing this fight?" sang the chorus. McCain barely joined in, fearing he might appear to be gloating. "Are your eyes teary blue?/ Darling Gov, is it true?/ Tell me, Jane...