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Review: ‘Death of a Salesman’ on Broadway, starring Wendell Pierce, thrills in the present but struggles with the echoes of the past

NEW YORK — Arthur Miller would, it’s reasonable to assume, have been delighted at the idea of a Broadway revival of “Death of a Salesman” with an all-Black Loman family, especially with Wendell Pierce (”The Wire”) swinging for the fences in the starring role and Sharon D. Clarke playing the…

Chicago Tribune

Arrive early, appoint a leader and say yes: why I get all steamed up about yum cha

You might think I’m no fun to have a meal with – but there’s method to my madness

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Nicholas Goldberg: Are animals entitled to basic legal rights just like people?

Happy is an Asian elephant who has lived since 1977 in captivity at the Bronx Zoo.

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From AIs to an unhappy elephant, the legal question of who is a person is approaching a reckoning

Happy the elephant’s story is a sad one. She is currently a resident of the Bronx Zoo in the US, where the Nonhuman Rights Project (a civil rights organisation) claims she is subject to unlawful detention. The campaigners sought a writ of habeas corpus on Happy’s behalf to request that…

The Conversation

Trade Associations, Chamber of Commerce Warn of Danger in Data Privacy Bill

Plus: Purity politics, the end of the "millennial consumer subsidy," an unhappy outcome for folks seeking to free Happy the elephant, and more...

Reason

Sad ending to Happy the elephant’s human rights push

Happy the elephant, a 37-year resident of the Bronx Zoo, must remain in her one-acre enclosure after a New York court ruled she is not legally a person.

The New Daily

Bronx Zoo’s Happy the Elephant is ‘not a person,’ NY Court of Appeals rules

NEW YORK — It’s a sad day to be Happy.

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Happy the elephant is not a person, a court rules

The 5-2 decision by the court comes in a closely watched case that tested the boundaries of applying human rights to animals.

WEKU

Happy the Elephant is not a person and must stay at Bronx Zoo, court rules

The wild-born animal has been at the zoo since 1977

The Independent UK

No Habeas Corpus for Happy the Elephant

From today's opinion from New York's high court in In the Matter of Nonhuman Rights Project, Inc., written by Judge DiFiore: For centuries, the common law writ of habeas corpus has safeguarded the liberty rights of human beings by providing a means to secure release from illegal custody. The question…

Reason

New York court rules Happy the elephant is not a person

"The writ of habeas corpus ... has no applicability to Happy, a nonhuman animal."

Axios

Top state court rejects effort to free Bronx Zoo elephant

New York’s top court has rejected an effort to free Happy the elephant from the Bronx Zoo

The Independent UK

Ten of the best Netflix shows to binge-watch now that you might not know about

You've probably seen Netflix's Squid Game, The Crown or Bridgerton ... but what about those series you always scroll past?

Daily Mirror

Are Elephants People? New York's Highest Court Hears Case for Animal Personhood

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The Independent UK

Is Happy the elephant a person? New York court debates if pachyderm has human rights

‘She has an interest in exercising her choices and deciding who she wants to be with, and where to go, and what to do, and what to eat’

WEKU

Happy is an Asian elephant. But can she also be considered a person?

Through an attorney, the Bronx Zoo argues Happy is neither illegally imprisoned nor a person, but a well-cared-for elephant "respected as the magnificent creature she is."

Chicago Sun-Times

Can an elephant also be considered a person? That’s what New York’s high court is being asked.

A ruling could be months away in the case involving Happy, an Asian elephant at the Bronx Zoo, that an animal rights group wants moved to a more spacious sanctuary.

The Independent UK

Happy is an Asian elephant. But is she also a person?

She has four limbs, expressive eyes and likes to stroll through greenery in New York City

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Daily Mirror

'Wheelie dog' drags himself around like a seal after being hit by car

Two-year-old Happy can no longer use his back legs after being hit by a car - but he doesn't let this stop him from enjoying life and playing with his favourite toys

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