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September 27-October 4, 1999Volume 28, Number 6



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"Medicare's lack of prescription drug coverage is killing my patients."

--School of Medicine professor Dr. Anna B. Reisman, in her Letter to the Editor, The New York Times, Sept. 15, 1999.

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"Because of the press of the United States, it is now impossible for a president of the United States to leave the White House, go somewhere and meet a girl."

-- Law School professor Bruce Ackerman, "How Did President Clinton Survive the Monica Lewinsky Scandal?" CNN's "Inside Politics," Sept. 13, 1999

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"It sounds like this is not only an unusual crime, but one that involves very public damage to a very important institution -- the Presidency."

--Law School professor Daniel J. Freed about a man who forged documents with John F. Kennedy's signature, "Judge to Add to Kennedy Forger's Sentence," New York Times, Sept. 17, 1999.

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"In this information age, filtering is inevitable ... [T]here's too much information chasing too few minds."

--Law School professor Jack M. Balkin, on "filtering" software that regulates what children can access on the Internet, "Plan for Self-Rating of Web Sites Assailed," Washington Post, Sept. 14, 1999.

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"Pursuing a major gift is a kind of dance, an extended conversation. As long as they keep coming, accepting our invitations to meet and to talk, donors are giving us permission to court them. But at any point along the way, anyone can deal himself out. And that's that. No hard feelings."

--Executive director of development at the School of Medicine Jerre Iversen, "Exchanging Gifts: Even Modest Donations to Nonprofit Groups Can Yield Big Social Dividends," The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 13, 1999.

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"With the Cold War over, the need for NATO remained. But it's not clear what its justification would now be."

--Yale historian John Gaddis, "NATO Draws Praise, Concern at Meeting," The Kansas City Star and elsewhere, Sept. 12, 1999.

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"Just knocking on someone's door, maybe a minute of conversation, can have a significant effect on political behavior."

--Political scientist Alan Gerber, "Getting Out the Vote," USA Today, Sept. 14, 1999.

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"The threat of future criminal prosecution, Mr. Posner believes, may prompt the president to try to pardon himself before leaving office. ... The book's discussion of the matter, in itself, makes the prospect of a president pardoning himself so disreputable that even Mr. Clinton may not dare to attempt it."

--Law School professor George L. Priest, in his review of Richard Posner's "An Affair of State," The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 14, 1999.

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"Obviously, there are changes in the brain after intense training. Everything you do changes the brain."

--Haskins Laboratories researcher Michael Studdert-Kennedy, "Verdict Still Not In on Dyslexia Therapy," The New York Times, Sept. 14, 1999.

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"Emphasizing beauty as one of the most important traits a woman can have, and emphasizing a pretty narrow range of physical appeal, I think, is a pretty destructive force and a kind of ridiculous throwback in some ways."

--Director of undergraduate studies for the women's and gender studies program Laura Green, "Miss America Reigns as a Guilty Pleasure," Connecticut Post, Sept. 14, 1999.

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"In the face of our own fear, we have to ask, 'What is the next step?'"

--Child psychologist Stephen Marans on parental worries about school safety, "Youth Violence Explored, Kids' Viewpoints Said Essential," Connecticut Post, Sept. 14, 1999.

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"We recruit against top-quality schools, so we have to get in there before the other schools come calling on these kids. I emphasize that if they come to Yale, they have to be looking for more than a great education. The great education is a given, but if they want to play football for Yale, they have to be as committed as they would at any of the other schools recruiting them."

--Yale Bulldogs football coach Jack Siedlecki, "Siedlecki Great for Yale," Connecticut Post, Sept. 15, 1999.

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"It is at least as common as harmony."

--Political scientist David R. Mayhew on divided government, "Davis' Middle Road Is Seen as Logical Course," Los Angeles Times, Sept. 12, 1999.

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"While some 430,000 violent crimes were committed with guns in 1997, Americans also used guns to defend themselves against attackers about 2 million times. If we really want to save lives, we must look not only at the newsworthy bad events, but also at the bad events that never occur because people are able to defend themselves and their families."

--Law School research scholar John R. Lott Jr., from his Letter to the Editor, Newsweek, Sept. 13, 1999.

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"And if you think leeches or blood-letting during Molière's time was ridiculous, we may look back at chemotherapy 100 years from now and say, 'Putting toxins into a person's body? Damaging healthy tissues?' It might seem just as ridiculous."

--Drama School instructor James Magruder, on his adaptation of Molière's "The Imaginary Invalid" for the Yale Repertory Theatre, "There's Something About Molière," The Hartford Courant, Sept. 12, 1999.

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"How long is China going to get to make the rest of the transition to a market economy? The United States wants a short period because we feel, and with great justification, that the longer the period the less credible the promise. China, on the other hand, would like to string this out for a long, long time, and that's where the real debate is, I think, and that's the real hidden and the most important issue."

--Yale School of Management Dean Jeffrey Garten, "Business News and Stock Report," National Public Radio, Sept. 9, 1999.

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"[In bottling], the water goes into a bottle that is sealed. In the tap water, the water goes into the distribution system of the city."

--School of Medicine professor Stephen Edberg, "Bottled Water Doesn't Always Live Up to Crystal Clear Image; Popularity Streams From 'Natural' Label," The Times-Picayune, Sept. 12, 1999.

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"It's a stick we use to beat [China] with every year and nothing ever happens. It's pretty clear that has had no ability whatsoever to influence them on human rights."

--School of Management professor David F. DeRosa, on U.S. trade negotiations with China, "Companies Watch as China Trade Talks Resume," The Hartford Courant, Sept. 11, 1999.

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"[Stanford President Gerhard Casper] is a true scholar, a person of really wide learning and wide tastes. It's a great loss for Stanford, and a great loss for higher education."

--President Richard C. Levin, "Stanford President To Resign and Teach Law Full Time," The New York Times, Sept. 15, 1999.

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"[Preschoolers think] 'If I don't clean up my toys, it will just get done,' as if there's a good fairy. If we do the task, we're the good fairy."

--Sterling Professor of Psychology Edward Zigler, "Dealing with Dawdling," The Boston Globe, Sept. 16, 1999.

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"It's almost like a molecular switch. Once it's flipped on, it stays on, and doesn't go away easily."

--Medical School professor Dr. Eric Nestler, "Brain Buildup Causes Addiction," AP Online, Sept. 15, 1999.


T H I SW E E K ' SS T O R I E S

Visit from Treasury Secretary launches new International Center for Finance

Ethics of stem cell research to be explored

Little-used Yale Library books get state-of-the-art care at off-campus shelving facility

Symposium and exhibit mark 'Celebration of Very Young Children and Books at Yale'

Gus Ranis forging unions, exploring borders at YCIAS

Forestry school dean will open lecture series on bioethics

Symposium explores themes in 'The Brothers Karamazov'

Former V.P. of European Commission named visiting scholar at Yale SOM

Philanthropist and builder Frederick P. Rose '44E dies

Astronomers say universe expanding faster than once thought

Scientists unravel 'yin' and 'yang' of how salmonella uses proteins to spark disease

Chemist to study potential benefits of sea sponge molecule with $150,000 grant

First winners of Frederick Douglass Book Prize named

Fall lecture series commemorates Brazilian writer Jorge Luis Borges

Scholars will share views on modernist art and photographyn

Paul Kennedy to open book discussion series

Professor to demonstrate his new OCTI game

Employee Day at the Yale Bowl

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