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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is more. Several years ago, the British government attempted to pass a bill that would allow those rearing battery hens to remove the chipped wood from their cages. Several animal researchers complained, saying that hens "need" chipped wood. On the face of it, this seems like a highly anthropomorphic...

Author: By Marc D. Hauser, | Title: Final Club Fowls | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

I hope this example provides a flavor of what chickens feel and think. What the students in the Phoenix club have done is inexcusable. Not only do they have no right to treat chickens with such horrible care, they have no right to treat any animal in such unthoughtful and...

Author: By Marc D. Hauser, | Title: Final Club Fowls | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

You almost feel that if the Nobel Prize were conferred on Jacques Derrida, hed start talking like Bill Cosby on Picture Pages. Laureates become the public faces of literature, and they start acting like publicizers instead of writers and scholars: what results can be something as banal and clichÅ?...

Author: By Joshua Perry, | Title: Nobel Winner Rests on Laurels | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

Throughout her career, Gordimer has been a paragon of authorly virtue: a white writer in apartheid South Africa, she stood staunchly with what she always calls the liberation movement. Her fiction exposes the bleeding heart of South African society, and her eye is precise and unflinching. This is not to...

Author: By Joshua Perry, | Title: Nobel Winner Rests on Laurels | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

In sad contrast, there is almost nothing of a revealing and striking honesty in Living in Hope and History. In most of her speeches and essays, Gordimer settles for platitudes and truisms rather than incisive commentary. Of course, in two or three of these selections, we do get some flashes...

Author: By Joshua Perry, | Title: Nobel Winner Rests on Laurels | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

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