March 24, 2000
"Slavery gave us the talent of just wishing away, ignoring evil on a massive scale, a certain expertise in denial, which we still apply to other issues today."
-- Executive coordinator of the Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition Robert Forbes, "Historians Examine Slavery, Its Legacies," St. Petersburg Times, March 11, 2000.
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"The political views and ideals of citizens are not distributed equally -- nor should they be."
-- John M. Olin Professor of Law and Economics George L. Priest, about the issue of private donations to political candidates, "Free to Be Politically Intense," The Washington Post, March 16, 2000.
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"I believe we're going to continue to strengthen our downtown and if we do so we can attract enough people so that we cannot only maintain our sales, but increase them."
-- Vice President for New Haven & State Affairs Bruce Alexander, "Support for Mall Coming from Yale," New Haven Register, March 11, 2000.
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"We're really not competing with Cambridge, but for young researchers looking for jobs, this area now offers an alternative."
-- Managing director of the Office of Cooperative Research E. Jonathan Soderstrom, "Yale Aiming to Make New Haven A Biomedical Center," The Boston Sunday Globe, March 12, 2000.
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"So many people are so ashamed to admit they have a problem. Why should people be ashamed?"
-- Research associate Dr. Martha G. MacAvoy, about individuals who show signs of memory loss, "Pinpointing Memory Loss; Identifying Mild Cognitive Impairment Could Help Delay Onset of Alzheimer's," The Hartford Courant, March 14, 2000.
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"We want 10 or 20 of these things [fish-like robots] to basically do an Esther Williams type thing with no instructions."
-- Professor of electrical engineering Stephen A. Morse, on his research into coordinated motion, "Flight School: Yale Scientists Explore How Birds, Fish keep From Bumping into One Another," New Haven Register, March 16, 2000.
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"Our goal is to identify those who are unaware they are carrying the [HIV] virus, possibly as much as half of the infected population in the United States."
-- Director of the AIDS program Dr. Gerald Friedland, "Federal Grants Aimed at Identifying AIDS virus carriers," The Associated Press, March 14, 2000.
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"People used to see a lot of death. Our childhood was riddled with deaths, legendary deaths. I grew up with this tragic sense of the family."
-- Professor of surgery Dr. Sherwin Nuland, on his early life in a Jewish community in the Bronx, "Parents' Early Demise Set Him on Path to Practicing Medicine," The Toronto Star, March 10, 2000.
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"The societal stereotypes of aging may in fact have a direct impact on physical functioning in old age."
-- Professor of epidemiology and public health Becca Levy, "All Walks of Life: Good Self-Esteem Improves Seniors' Stride, Study Finds," The Gazette (Montreal), March 11, 2000.
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"Lapidus showed that you don't have to be grim to be modern. He mixed Busby Berkeley with Le Corbusier and came up with something hot."
-- Dean of the School of Architecture Robert A. M. Stern, about flamboyant architect Morris Lapidus, "I, Lapidus; Living Long Has Been the Best Revenge for the Once Vilified Architect of Miami Beach's Fabled Pleasure Domes," The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, March 12, 2000.
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"Even if you don't believe God is punishing you, there's the haunting feeling that this might be part of a divine plan."
-- Associate professor of theology Rev. Dr. L. Serene Jones, about the reaction of some women who are unable to bear a child, "Yale Prof Offers Theological Perspective on Reproductive Loss," Sunday News (Lancaster, Pa.), March 12, 2000.
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"When he's stressed, he doesn't have the cerebral wherewithal to reflect on what he's doing."
-- Psychiatrist Dr. Dorothy Lewis, testifying for the defense in the trial of a Kansas man for murder, "Man Charged in Death of Wife, Stepdaughter," The Kansas City Star, March 14, 2000.
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"I have never seen any specimen as complete as that and I have collected all over the world."
-- Professor emeritus of geology & geophysics John H. Ostrom, "Florida Museum Unveils Bird-Like Dinosaur That May Hold Evolutionary Key," The Associated Press, March 17, 2000.