"Americans are regarded by Europeans, especially the French and the Germans, as demented because they appear to be smiling constantly without cause."
-- Professor of women's & gender studies Marianne LaFrance, "Screen Test," The Toronto Star, Nov. 23, 2000.
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"People come [to the Yale School of Drama], we like to think, with a passion and the talents, and the intelligence, and I'd like to think that they leave with increased experience and discipline."
-- Dean of the School of Drama Stan Wojewodski Jr., "Yale School of Drama," CNNfn, Nov. 14, 2000.
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"I think it's actually a national disgrace that the rest of us in America can't follow in real time what the United States Supreme Court is doing. Its proceedings are, in theory, public, but you have to basically live in Washington, D.C., in order to be in on it. And that has no place in the 21st century.
-- Southmayd Professor of Law Akhil Reed Amar, "Professor Akhil Reed Amar of Yale University Talks About the U.S. Supreme Court's Involvement in the Florida Elections," National Public Radio, Nov. 25, 2000.
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"In the archetypal cookie story, some mischievous hacker wrote a program that made a central computer lock up, leaving only the message 'I want a cookie' on the screen. After many attempts to fix the problem, someone thought to type in 'COOKIE,' after which the computer responded 'YUM YUM' and was again ready to work.
-- Associate librarian for public services Fred Shapiro with lexicographer Frank Abate about the origins of the computer term "cookie" in their article "The New Economy Comes With a New Vocabulary," WSJ.com, Nov. 21, 2000.
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"We get several calls a week from people in Boston or New York who want to know what we're up to. It's impressive when you realize we began this process a few years ago from a standing start."
-- Vice President for New Haven & State Affairs Bruce Alexander about investors interested in new high-tech businesses spun out of Yale discoveries, "New Haven is Becoming a Tech Haven," New Haven Register, Dec. 3, 2000.
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"If you want to get a sense of where this economy might be headed, talk to the students. They're excited about what's happening here and that excitement is infectious."
-- Managing director of the Office of Cooperative Research Jonathan Soderstrom, "Tech Haven Cyber Schmoozers; Youth Ventures Leading City's New Economy," New Haven Register, Monday, Dec. 4, 2000.
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"I was an only child, and I spent a lot of time with my dog running through Edgewood Park. I looked at all the one- and two-family houses, and I'd try to figure out where the living room was and where the dining room was."
-- Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art Vincent J. Scully Jr., "Town Honors Gown; Breaking With Tradition, Arts Council's Annual Awards Spotlight Yale's Contributions," New Haven Register, Dec. 3, 2000.
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"We reduced the rate of new HIV infections among participants by 33%, without any resulting increase in the level of drug use. In simple terms, the program has saved lives."
-- William N. & Marie A. Beach Professor of Management Sciences & professor of public health Edward H. Kaplan, "Survivor, Experts Praise Needle Program That Reaches Out to Save Drug Addicts," New Haven Register, Dec. 1, 2000.
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"The reality is that our cherished election system is poorly equipped to deal with the uncertain calculus of an excruciatingly close race in which more than 102 million Americans cast their votes across 50 states and countless fly-speck precincts. If anything is to be blamed for our impasse, it is democracy itself. And blaming democracy is something that no one on college campuses is ready to do."
-- Editor of the Yale Daily News Michael Barbaro with Ross Douthat, editor of the Harvard Salient, in their article "All Quiet on the Campus Front," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Nov. 26, 2000.
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"We are dealing here with the kind of precedent we are setting for the election of future presidents."
-- Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science Bruce Ackerman, "Florida Governor Backs Lawmakers' Efforts to Bypass Courts and Select Electors," The New York Times, Nov. 30, 2000.
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"We are not doing our kids a favor by pretending the world is a math problem you can solve."
-- Clinician at the Child Study Center Dr. Kyle Pruett, "Survey Finds Parents Ill-Informed," New Haven Register, Nov. 23, 2000.
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"Voters need no encouragement to suspect that politicians are actors in a scene-shifting soap opera of power and money. And in the popular lexicon, the law has increasingly become a stand-in for everything that is esoteric, devious, slippery and self-serving. When politicians themselves say these things about the judiciary, they risk convincing the country that no one is fit to govern."
-- Law School student Jedediah Purdy in his op-ed article "Once Again, America Needs to Believe in Its Courts," The New York Times, Nov. 26, 2000.
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"To carry out [the execution of Juan Raul Garza] despite the government's own evidence of racial and geographic disparities in the administration of the death penalty would compromise the integrity of our legal system."
-- Dean of the Law School Anthony T. Kronman, "Activists Urge Clinton to Halt Execution, Issue Moratorium," The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC), Nov. 23, 2000.
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"In any case where there is political controversy, there's going to be heated differences between people who say 'this is judicial interpretation' and people who say 'this is judicial legislation.' How do you tell the difference? It's a matter of judgment."
-- John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence William N. Eskridge Jr., "Did Florida Court Interpret the Law or Write It?" The New York Times, Nov. 30, 2000.
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"We're seeing a change in skylines in almost every city because the market has finally absorbed all the vacant office space. People are moving back into downtowns, and developers are responding to the change in the market."
-- Adjunct professor at the School of Architecture Alexander Garvin, "Searching for Space, Cities Go Vertical," The Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 30, 2000.
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"We're using it as a way to distract patients. It's a lot like computer-assisted meditation."
-- Assistant professor of obstetrics & gynecology Dr. Steven Palter about using virtual reality headsets to calm patients during a procedure, "Virtual Painkiller; Headset Whisks Patients Off On an Underwater Tour While Undergoing Procedures," New Haven Register, Nov. 30, 2000.
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"Simply put, the problem lies not with people but with the voting machines."
-- Associate professor of statistics Nicolas Hengartner, "Gore Presses Swift Count of Disputed Votes," latimes.com, Nov. 30, 2000.
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"The presence of NATO troops is essential to keeping the peace [in Bosnia] and helping people feel some degree of security as this postwar recovery process continues."
-- University Chaplain The Reverend Frederick J. Streets in his letter to the editor, "Bosnia's Rebirth," The New York Times, Nov. 30, 2000.
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"Students rub Woolsey's toe for good luck."
-- Chief research archivist Judith Schiff about the Old Campus statue of Yale's tenth president, Theodore Dwight Woolsey, "Statues in New Haven Deserve to be Treated With a Bit More Respect, And That's What the Elm City Parks Conservancy Plans to Do," New Haven Register, Dec. 3, 2000.
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"The fascinating thing about it is, even if [dueling over politics] wasn't happening all the time, it was always there as a threat. People always knew that if you crossed the line, you might end up dying."
-- Assistant professor of history Joanne Freeman, "Early Political Disputes Solved Quickly and With Deadly Consequences," The Associated Press, Dec. 3, 2000.
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"There has been some spectacular development in Boston and Baltimore. But even those projects were a success only to themselves. It did nothing for the surrounding neighborhoods."
-- Richard S. Ely Professor of Management and Political Science Douglas Rae, "Bridgeport Waits for Private Investors," Connecticut Post, Dec. 4, 2000.
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