"Of course, as a nuclear scientist, you do your research and calculations with care, but sometimes you have to have your adventures."
-- Engineering Dean D. Allan Bromley, "Yale Scientist Knows His Atoms Inside Out," The New York Times, Jan. 25, 2000.
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"Part of the impetus for the 14th amendment was the fact that after the war, Southern militias were taking away guns from recently freed slaves and passing laws making it illegal for blacks to own guns. The framers of the 14th Amendment saw the right to private gun ownership as a fundamental personal right and liberty, to be equally protected from either state or federal government."
--Law School professor Akhil Amar, "A New Debate on Gun Control," The National Journal, Jan. 15, 2000.
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"Soon any company without a web strategy will have fallen by the wayside."
--School of Management Dean Jeffrey E. Garten, "What Could Go Wrong in the New Economy," Business Week, Dec. 13, 1999.
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"We don't go into any game fearing anyone."
--Head coach of men's hockey Tim Taylor, "Bulldogs Feel Thrill of Facing Higher-Echelon Team," New Haven Register, Jan. 17, 2000.
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"We need to avoid aerial spraying [for mosquitoes carrying West Nile encephalitis] at all costs."
--Epidemiologist Durland Fish, "Experts: Avoid Spraying if Possible," Associated Press, Jan. 21, 2000.
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"Given that the logic of ethanol is more about politics than environmental protection, the fact that Iowa has an early caucus looms large."
-- Center for Environmental Law and Policy director Daniel C. Esty, "Ethanol, Despite All Its Critics, Plays a Leading Role in Pre-Caucus Iowa," The New York Times, Jan. 21, 2000.
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"We don't want to wait 10 or 20 years. We need political leaders [now] who do not think ideologically or opportunistically."
--Child psychiatrist James P. Comer, "Good Education Belongs To All Pupils, Teacher Says," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jan. 26, 2000.
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"These [old] schools are as important to their neighborhoods and to the city as any former mansion on the Upper East Side. These are landmarks, imposing but not overwhelming representations of a city's commitment to quality education that give their predominantly poor neighborhoods pride and a sense of place. These are the everyday masterpieces of a talented, historically overlooked architect who devoted himself to the public. Here is architecture in the service of democracy."
-- School of Architecture Dean Robert A. M. Stern, in his article "Schools Too Grand to Turn Into Trash," The New York Times, Jan. 22, 2000.
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"The societal stereotypes of aging may in fact have a direct impact on physical functioning in old age."
--Social psychologist Becca Levy, "Giving Seniors a Subconscious Boost: Subliminal Cues Prompt Older People to Put More Spring in Their Step," The Washington Post, Jan. 25, 2000.
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"It seems quite clear that there are a number of individuals or companies that are targeting university names in the .com, .net, and .org names base."
--Information Technology Services director Daniel A. Updegrove, "As 'Cybersquatters' Multiply, Colleges Try to Protect Their Good Names," The Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan. 21, 2000.
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"Under Connecticut law at the time, it's not at all clear that after a juvenile delinquent becomes an adult the courts have jurisdiction over him. And it may be that there isn't any legal case to be brought against 39-year-olds who did bad things when they were 15."
--Yale Child Study Center lecturer and Law School research associate David Rosen, on whether accused murderer Michael C. Skakel should be tried as a juvenile, "Complicated Case Should Set Legal Precedent in Connecticut and Beyond," The Boston Globe, Jan. 20, 2000.
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"We all do research that at first pass might seem quite small. Yes, some of my colleagues said, 'That's interesting, ha, ha.' But then, when we talk about it, people are interested. People have pointed out more than once that God is in the details."
--Psychologist Marianne LaFrance, "Yale Study Ponders Psychology of Bad Hair Days," Associated Press, Jan. 25, 2000.
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"People think the market has short-run risk but that if you ride it out, there is no risk."
--Economist Robert Shiller, "Is Your Comfort Level Too High?" Business Week, §
"[Christopher Columbus, after a shipwreck on his fourth voyage] assembled all of the local chieftains and the local notables and predicted that, unless you bring me food I will make my god cause the moon to go out three days hence. Well, indeed the moon went out. The natives, seeing this, said, holy cow, the moon eclipse, this man is powerful, and they started bringing him food."
--Astronomer Brad Schaefer, "The Best Show in Town: Lunar Eclipse to Show Spectacular Colors," CNN Morning News, Jan. 20, 2000.
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"[Central Indiana] was all intense Indian country in those years, until at least 1795, mostly until after the War of 1812. It was extremely unlikely [Daniel Boone] would have been wandering around up there hunting."
--Historian John Mack Faragher, "Carving a Legend. We May Never Know if Pioneer Daniel Boone Really Left His Initials on an Eagle Creek Tree, Regardless, it Makes a Good Story," The Indianapolis Star, Jan. 14, 2000.
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"No local law, constitution or military decree can legitimize the international crime of torture and place it within a job description."
--Law School professor Ruth Wedgwood, in her article "Tortures Beware the Pinochet Precedent," Financial Times (London), §
"Who else [but architect Louis Kahn] would build an enormous aluminum cylinder and place it in the middle of a beautiful drawing room with pictures of dogs and horses on its walls?"
--Yale Alumni Magazine editor Carter Wiseman, referring to the piece of work off the main entrance of the Yale Center for British Art that disguises a stairwell leading to another room filled with British art, "ESU Gets an Earful on Architecture," The New Haven Register, Jan. 16, 2000.
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"There are some students and doctors who will tell patients exactly who they are, but I think by and large, most of them will assume that the patient already has some understanding and leave it at that."
--School of Medicine professor Dr. Lauris Kaldjian, "Training of Doctors Raises Questions About Education and Ethics," CNN Your Health, Jan. 22, 2000.
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