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Once the domain solely of activists, animal law has steadily gained respect among law schools and legal scholars since 2000, when Wise's first book, Rattling the Cage, provided an academic argument for granting legal rights to animals. Now some 40 law schools offer courses on the topic. Cass Sunstein, professor at the University of Chicago Law School, explains the appeal in ethical terms: "There is a universal agreement that animal suffering matters. Even those who think they despise the notion of animal rights think that suffering and cruelty are problems...
...verse in Matthew in which Joseph considers divorcing Mary before his dream angel allays his doubts. Related notions of Jesus' illegitimacy have never totally disappeared. Jane Schaberg, an iconoclastic feminist critic at the University of Detroit Mercy, has long maintained that parts of Luke's introduction to the topic echo the beginning of an Old Testament passage on rape ("If there be a virgin betrothed to a man, and if another ... should have lain with her"), suggesting violation as the cause of Mary's pregnancy. The Holy Spirit, in Schaberg's version, transmutes a ritually taboo pregnancy into an occasion...
...awkwardness and procrastination that Zuckerberg hath wrought, and thus he had a level-headed perspective on the issue that many here lack. Once you get sucked into thefacebook, one creates rationalizations for prolonging its use. In this case, an outsider’s perspective has shone light on a topic that has a blind sense of school pride attached...
Alex L. Pasternack arrives in a funky red hat and starts chatting about seniors’ favorite topic. “Garbage. My thesis is about garbage,” he says...
...credited with returning reproductive rights activism to campus, brandishes a female condom. Safo displays a bracelet that only upon close scrutiny is revealed to be a catalogue of Kama Sutra sexual positions. And after checking with the crowd that talk of her self-professed favorite topic, sex, wouldn’t make things “awkward,” Menendez quotes a Harvard interview subject for her senior thesis: “Please, I’m not going to get an STD—I only sleep with guys who wear loafers...