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Moreover, the council will also save $7,000 dollars of the $22,000 originally allocated to lure a band to Harvard. This is an important consideration for the cash-strapped council. Although a substantial portion of that money should be spent on student groups, the council would be wise to redirect some of it toward improving Voodoo Daddy's visit. Swing dancing on the muddy morass of the MAC Quad in spring isn't too likely, and without a place to dance much of the appeal of swing music is lost. A small investment in planking over part...
...Wise, 49, is an animal-rights lawyer--or "animal-rights wacko," in the view of Rush Limbaugh. Wise has spent 20 years standing up in court for deer, cats, bald eagles, dolphins, assorted primates and other beleaguered species. It is a profession that Wise, who has a gift for comedy, finds amusing. In his study hangs a favorite cartoon, of a dog raising his right paw to take the oath in court, and the caption: "Rover v. Wade...
...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...
...recent Thursday afternoon, Wise left behind his twins, his "companion animals" and his wife and law partner Debi in their colonial house in Needham, Mass., and drove to begin work as a lecturer at Harvard Law School, teaching the rights of animals. What's necessary, Wise thinks, is to coax what he calls a paradigm shift in people's understanding of the human place, and animals' place, in nature. If--hypothetically--a certain nonhuman animal has a conscious mind, with faculties of self-awareness, language, emotional bonds and social skills, is not the animal entitled at least to legal protections...
...danger of ridicule runs high in Wise's business. The public hates lawyers, and the idea of court-clogging animal-rights litigation makes eyes roll. Wise's job is to divest mankind of some of its metaphysical self-importance--the absolute dominion over nature granted by Genesis, Aristotle and the Great Chain of Being, a hierarchy in which man may use all subordinate creation as he pleases, for everything from food to biomedical research...