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...measure, which forbids the confinement of calves and pregnant sows in narrow crates, affects only a single industrial farm in a state that raises little pork and no commercial veal. But agribusiness and animal welfare advocates agree that a victory in Arizona will invigorate the growing national movement to reform factory farms. "If it works in Arizona, then we'll go on to California and other states," says Princeton professor Peter Singer, a renowned animal welfare activist...
...much more poisonously partisan our nation's politics has become. Two of the most productive legislative sessions over the last 16 years were in 1995-1996 - when a G.O.P.-controlled Congress and President Clinton passed 13 major laws, including a massive deregulation of the telecommunications industry and a welfare reform bill that drastically reshaped how the federal government and states supported low-income people - and 2001- 2002, when President Bush joined a Democrat-dominated Senate in authorizing two wars and passing the Patriot Act and the No Child Left Behind education law. Neither...
...sodden campaigning? Did Richard Nixon grow his shadowy stubble, or did his shadowy stubble grow him? The British weekly New Scientist has touched on this, exploring what is known as nominative determinism--the common case of people whose names echo their jobs. There is the director of penal reform Frances Crook, the marine biologist Steven Haddock. American culture has been rife with such synchronicity--pitcher Rollie Fingers, Senator George McGovern. "Are these whimsicalities of chance," Carl Jung once asked, "or the suggestive effects of the name...
When China's state media announced a change of rules on the death penalty earlier this week, they did so with great fanfare. The reform - an amendment to the law that regulates the country's court system - will mean that next year, all death sentences in China will have to be reviewed by its Supreme People's Court. (The court is currently reviewing only some cases.) Xinhua, China's official news agency described this as "believed to be the most important reform on capital punishment in China in more than 20 years...
...half centuries ago, John Wycliffe translated the Bible into English. One year ago, a Wyclef Jean concert was cancelled at Harvard University.Wycliffe hoped to reform the Catholic Church. Wyclef, although he never intended to, helped spark a movement to reform another institution: the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC).By the end of the 2005 fall, many undergraduates had grown disenchanted with the HCC. After consecutive failures to lock down concerts with Snoop Dogg and Wyclef Jean, and a subsequent official inquiry by the Undergraduate Council (UC), there was a great deal of pressure on the HCC for internal reform.Now, a year...