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Julia E. Schlozman ’09, another friend, said she was impressed with Wise??s relentless devotion to her academic work, referring to her as “an extraordinarily brilliant Energizer Bunny...
...commitments of players with whom he has built personal relationships. For his part, Wade insisted that recruiting remains in capable hands.“Coach Amaker is a tremendous recruiter,” Wade said. “He’s going to carry the torch recruiting-wise??Coach [Kenny] Blakeney does a tremendous job, and whoever else they hire will do a great job. In a lot of ways, Harvard sells itself.”Several players agreed with Wade, saying that his departure will not impact next season’s recruiting class...
Sheila J. Hicks, a student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, was more sympathetic to Wise??s views on Obama’s election...
...idea that the “wise?? should rule is as old as politics itself. The ancient philosophers Plato and Aristotle preferred what, in Greek, would be termed “the rule of the best.” Such a regime, however, seems to collide fundamentally with the egalitarian principles enunciated in our founding documents and the democratic sensibilities about government held by many, if not most, Americans. We like to think that in America anyone—even the descendant of an East-African goatherd—can become president. Anyone, nowadays at least...
...Wise??s strategy is more radical. He once listed a dolphin named Rainbow as the plaintiff in a lawsuit against an aquarium, and he hopes to establish animals as legal persons in future suits—he argues that if corporations and ships can already be persons before the law, it is absurd that animals cannot. Wise believes that until animals achieve legal personhood, even the strongest welfare laws will be undermined by animals’ property status—right now, there is no such thing as “animal rights law” he notes...