"We all might be prejudiced in ways we're not aware."
-- Professor of psychology Mahzarin Banaji, "Pride and Prejudice: Prejudice in America," "Dateline NBC," March 19, 2000.
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"Clearly, the INS would have reasonable authority to decide what the age cutoff might be [for applying for asylum in the United States]. The attorney general would have broad authority to define that age."
-- Law School professor Peter H. Schuck, "Elian's Legal Team Plan to Fight Federal Judge's Decision," The Miami Herald, March 22, 2000.
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"It is hard to expect our increasingly vulnerable work force to be much impressed by the needs of business for flexibility, even if, ironically, this flexibility is substantially responsible for the economy's sustained strong performance."
-- Chair of the Political Science department Ian Shapiro, from his essay "Health Care For All Is Healthy For Business, Too," The Hartford Courant, March 11, 2000.
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"What we hope to do is to make the quark-gluon plasma [the first matter created after the Big Bang] and then to actually probe and understand its properties."
-- Professor of physics John W. Harris, "New Particle Collider Will Recreate Universe's First Moments," The Associated Press, March 20, 2000.
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"The finding about dioxin levels at the bases changes everything when we start to talk about women veterans."
-- School of Nursing research scientist Linda Schwartz, "Yale Scientist Testifies About Agent Orange Exposure," Connecticut Post, March 17, 2000.
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"[In that case] you had a six-year-old boy living in a crack house with drug addicts, and all the relatives had warrants out for their arrests. Would trigger locks have made a difference?"
-- Law School postdoctoral associate John R. Lott Jr., about President Clinton's statement that tighter gun laws would have prevented the shooting of a first-grade student by her classmate, "Lobbyist Takes Fight To Bear Arms Personally," The Christian Science Monitor, March 17, 2000.
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"I don't know much about basketball. I never did it systematically before. I always let my sentiments get in the way."
-- Professor of management science & public health Edward H. Kaplan, about his model for predicting the March Madness winner, "Yale Prof Has Method to His Madness," The Connecticut Post, March 17, 2000.
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"What's remarkable about this particular drug is that patients would only need to use it for a short period of time to achieve long-lasting effects."
-- Professor of neurobiology, neurology & psychiatry Dr. Patricia Goldman-Rakic, about the drug ABT 431, "Study Finds Drug Can Reverse Some Memory Loss," The Associated Press, March 17, 2000.
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"Picky eating tends to be a problem in the most conscientious families. It's mothers who want to provide the best possible nutrition to their children. It's almost like they try too hard."
-- Professor of pediatrics Dr. William V. Tamborlane, "Living With The Picky Eater: Some Doctors Say It's Normal, But It Can Be Dispiriting For Parents Who Wonder If They Have Failed," The Vancouver Sun, March 20, 2000.
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"An actor has a very specific job to do. . . . It's not about gossamer and fairy wings. It's about imagination, risk, commitment to telling stories that might prepare us for a stronger sense of ourselves as a community and all we can mean to each other: making a commitment to telling those stories."
-- Dean of the School of Drama Stan Wojewodski Jr., "When Yale School of Drama Chooses An Acting Class, It's Also Building A Repertory Company," New Haven Register, March 19, 2000.
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"The concept of learning disability is flawed operationally. It's a hopelessly flawed definition."
-- Professor of psychology Robert J. Sternberg, "Yale Psychologists Challenge Conventional View of Reading Disorders," New Haven Register, March 2, 2000.
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