"Proof [that he fathered a child by his slave Sally Hemings] ultimately rests on demonstrating that Thomas Jefferson was present at the time Eston was conceived and that no other male relative with the same Y chromosome was hiding in the bushes."
-- Geneticist Dr. Kenneth K. Kidd, "Descendants of Slave Insist Jefferson Fathered 7," New Haven Register, Jan. 28, 2000
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"These differences in procedure rates [for heart attack victims with mental illnesses] could be used as a marker for potentially larger difficulties in the health care system. They are a red flag that we need to look at the issue more carefully."
-- Psychiatrist Dr. Benjamin G. Druss, "Study: Mentally Ill Get Different Heart Treatment," Associated Press, Jan. 25, 2000.
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"The way in which our leaders are remembered depends much more on the judgments and memories of the American people -- and, partly, of historians -- than on efforts by presidents themselves."
-- Historian Paul Kennedy, in his article "Clinton Should Leave History to the Historians," The Wall Street Journal, Jan. 27, 2000.
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"A man will hold a baby differently. They tend to hold them less up here, and more like this in the kind of football position. ... Or carry them so that they face the world, which is the same world the father is facing, and so it's an interesting message: 'I am here to show you the world, to keep you safe in it and make it an interesting place to you.'"
-- Psychiatrist Dr. Kyle Pruett, on the impact of fathers or male role models in children's lives, CBS News, Jan. 31, 2000.
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"[The creators of an index rating countries' environmental friendliness] wanted ministers to know their performance would be judged by something other than economic growth. We're trying to tell activists that you can make your point without having to break windows. You can do things like this in a way that makes sense to people in a forum like this."
-- Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy director Daniel Esty, "World Economic Forum Launches Index to Rank Green Friendliness," The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 1, 2000.
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"The forces of globalization are proclaimed to carry prosperity to a civilization spanning the planet. This civilization is defined by those with access to capital, education, and advanced communications conduits and content. This is the epidermis of humanity. It does not yet run deep. The great challenge is to render horizontal trends vertical so the benefits reach those who are outcast from globalization's feast."
-- Visiting lecturer in international security studies Charles Norchi, "The Global Divide, From Davos ... to the Campaign in New Hampshire," The Boston Globe, Feb. 1, 2000.
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"Architecture creates an environment for human beings to live in; sculpture puts images into action; and painting, through illusion, humans can make any environment or act that they wish."
-- Art historian Vincent J. Scully, "The World According to Scully," Business New Haven, Jan. 10, 2000.
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"The core difficulty in delivering adequate protections to children [living in poverty] is that the virtually universal sympathy for the children is accompanied by suspicion, even antipathy, for their parents. This means that able-bodied parents must work and that benefits must be provided in-kind -- health care, child care and housing, for example -- rather than in cash."
-- Law professors Michael J. Graetz and Jerry L. Mashaw, in their article "Cushioning the Risks for the Old and the Young," Los Angeles Times, Jan. 27, 2000.
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"The cultural truism is men are not affected by their appearance. But [distress over 'bad hair days'] is not just the domain of women."
-- Psychologist Marianne LaFrance, "Bad Hair Day Has Us All in a Lather," Belfast Telegraph, Jan. 26, 2000.
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"Most of the press paid attention to the [Y2K] device problem [including elevators, power plants, air traffic control and telephones]. ... It turns out the really nettlesome problems were database and software problems."
-- Director of Information Technology Services Daniel A. Updegrove, "Bug Out," New Haven Register, Jan. 27, 2000.
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"[Condemned child killer Robert Glen Coe's] thinking is not consistent with reality. He thinks he is being executed not for the crime of which he was convicted but to keep him quiet and to keep the truth from coming out."
-- Psychiatrist Dr. James Merikangas, "Surly Coe Chides, Curses Judge, Expert, Lawyers Try to Prove Him Incompetent," The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN), Jan. 25, 2000.
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"The attention [being paid to Cuban child Elian Gonzalez], really in itself, is very overstimulating and overwhelming to children. He needs to be doing the routine things of his daily life."
-- Child Study Center assistant clinical professor Dr. Preston Wiles, "Elian Gonzalez Endures Spotlight and Adulation in Cuba and Miami," ABC World News This Morning, Jan. 23, 2000.
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"The computer has made an enormous contribution to how people see design and then do design. One way of thinking about it is that more people than ever in human history know what a font is or what letter spacing is. It's made the arcane knowledge of typography, as they say in that Apple [ad], available to the rest of us. ... Sometimes, of course, the tools tend to make people stupid. PowerPoint, for instance, which is used for business presentations. I think that and the overhead projector have probably subtracted from the world's knowledge."
-- Graphic designer Edward Tufte, "American Digest," Austin American-Statesman, Jan. 23, 2000.
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"While there's support for the death penalty in the country, no question, the reality of the death penalty is the execution of the mentally ill and mentally retarded, and people who were children at the time of the crimes. And the fact that we're going at such speeds in states like Texas and that we're risking the execution of innocent people is very troubling to people."
-- Visiting Law School lecturer Stephen Bright, "A Test For Bush's Compassion?" The Baltimore Sun, Jan. 21, 2000.
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"The United Nations was very much an American creation, founded in San Francisco in 1945, and the brainchild of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Winston Churchill, all of whom recognized nations of the world needed common structures to achieve peace and prosperity."
-- Historian Paul Kennedy and administrative assistant at International Security Studies Rose A. Pawlikowski, in their letter to the editor, New Haven Register, Jan. 25, 2000.
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"A strong economy between now and the election will make for a narrow Democratic victory."
-- Economist Ray Fair, "Election 2000: It's Still the Economy," The Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 31, 2000.
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"Under a 'zero tolerance' policy, students face suspension or expulsion for even carrying around pictures of guns or other weapons. Students ranging from elementary school to college have even been expelled for bringing water pistols to school, though no one believes brightly colored plastic water guns can be confused with a firearm."
-- Law School senior research scholar John R. Lott Jr., in his article "Creating Hysteria Over Guns," The Washington Times, Jan. 30, 2000.
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"The ['Dr. Dolittle'] books have a respect for life and nature. Everything is equal. He's very modern in his attitude toward nature."
-- Yale professor Dr. David Musto, "Original Dr. Dolittle Drawings, Writings on Display at Yale Museum," The Associated Press State & Local Wire, Jan. 29, 2000.
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"'Grease' maps a nostalgic moment in time that never really existed. It exists only in our memories, but that doesn't matter because parents and adults both love it. Like Thornton Wilder's 'Our Town,' 'Grease' connects all generations."
-- English and theater studies professor Joseph Roach, "Still Going Strong," The Buffalo News, Jan. 21, 2000.
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"The physical experts, at any rate, seem convinced that the documents' materials are authentic. Of course, authentic materials are not the same as authentic documents. Stuart Schwartz, a historian of colonial Latin America at Yale, recalls being approached by a stranger seeking to buy blank sheets from baroque codices he was perusing in a Spanish archive."
-- Graduate student in history Jeremy Mumford, on a 17th-century Peruvian document whose authenticity is questioned by scholars, in his article "Clara Miccinelli's Cabinet of Wonders: Jesuits, Incas, and the Mysteries of Colonial Peru," Lingua Franca, February 2000.
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"George [Washington's] unanimous election in 1789 -- every member of the first electoral college supported him -- reflected the founders' strong suspicion of the father-son dynasty. Put simply, Washington became father of his country in part because he was not father of his own children. He sired no heirs, and his only stepson died in 1781."
-- Law professor Akhil Reed Amar, in his article "U.S. Successions Began with George (III and W)," Los Angeles Times, Jan. 23, 2000.
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"Yale is committed to remain on everyone's short list of the best universities in the world. In the 21st century, you must excel in science and engineering to maintain that position."
-- President Richard C. Levin, "At Yale, a $500 Million Plan Reflects a New Age of Science," The New York Times, Jan. 19, 2000.
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"We're at a stage where there's a transformation of the economic infrastructure. It's too big a problem for any one company to solve. So you cooperate to create value."
-- School of Management professor Barry J. Nalebuff, "Cyberspace Inc.: More Companies Cut Risk by Collaborating with Their 'Enemies'," The Wall Street Journal, Jan. 31, 2000.
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