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Seventy-nine students will graduate summa cum laude and 565 will graduate magna cum laude. Three hundred and ninety one will graduate cum laude in a field of concentration and the College will award cum laude general studies degrees to 375 students. Non-honors degrees will be awarded to 160 students...
Federman graduated magna cum laude from the medical school in 1953. He spent the next two years completing his residency at Massachusetts General Hospital...
After graduating magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1943, where he lived in Eliot House, Chayes served with the U.S. army in both the European and Pacific theaters of World...
...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...
...used to introduce items about people like Wise by playing "Born Free," with ricocheting gunfire and wild animal squawks in the background. Limbaugh should get a kick out of Wise's new book, called "Rattling the Cage," which Jane Goodall, in the preface, declares to be the "animals' Magna Carta...