Yale Bulletin and Calendar

March 2, 2001

Volume 29, Number 21

Two-Week Issue

"I believe that sentiment really can drive stock market prices, and that even though there are rational investors out there, there aren't enough to offset the broad sentiment of individuals."

-- Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance & Management Studies William Goetzmann, "Weekend Investor: Getting Inside the Heads of Investors: The Bear Run is Giving Academics the Chance to Assess Their Theories on the Links Between Human Psychology and Market Performance," Financial Times, Feb. 10, 2001.

"Whatever the challenges, the [tobacco] industry cannot be left to peacefully reap billions of dollars in profits, totally unrepentant, and without thought to the pain caused in the process. For that remains its intent."

-- Dean of the School of Medicine Dr. David Kessler, "As FDA Chief, David Kessler Made Fighting Big Tobacco's Lethal Fallout His Mission," Boston Sunday Globe,
Feb. 11, 2001.

"By their soft line [toward war criminals, Croatian authorities] actually prepared the situation which the opposition is now exploiting, changing significantly the political situation in the country."

-- Bradford Durfee Professor of History Ivo Banac, "Croatia's Authorities Challenged by Right-Wing Protests," Agence France Presse, Feb. 14, 2001.

[O]ffering employees an ownership stake ups the ante of the exchange (between workers and management). When things go bad, employees who focus on the stock options have really got a problem because that has become all that their relationship to the company is based upon."

-- Associate professor at the School of Management Sigal Barsade, "Owning a Piece of a Company Has Benefits and Hangups, Experts Say," New Haven Register, Feb. 11, 2001.

"Wrinkled, sagging skin is not the inevitable result of growing older."

-- Assistant clinical professor of dermatology Nicholas Perricone, "Digging Deep to Fight Wrinkles," washingtonpost.com, Feb. 20, 2001.

"It used to seem to me that I worked in software to make a living and support my family and what I did there had nothing to do with my painting. But that was wrong. Everything a man does is related to everything else a man does."

-- Professor of computer science David Gelernter, "Bold Strokes: Unabomber Target David Gelernter's Art Exhibit Draws On a New Sense of Urgency," The Hartford Courant, Feb. 16, 2001.

"[Teachers at zero-tolerance schools] begin to feel their hands are tied. It cuts out the ability to judge each circumstance on its own merits."

-- Clinician at the Child Study Center Kyle Pruett, "Rethinking Zero Tolerance," Newsweek, Feb. 12, 2001.

"God has no allegiance to us because we are Americans, a Democrat, a Republican, liberal or conservative. Christianity, Islam, and Judaism are three of many ways we conceived and represented God to the world."

-- University Chaplain The Reverend Frederick J. Streets in his article "Demand for Faith-Based Service Will Rise," New Haven Register, Feb. 11, 2001.

"[The framers of the Constitution] wanted the presidents to be free to go, at a moment's notice, to say to the rebels: 'Lay down your arms and I will be merciful.'"

-- Southmayd Professor of Law Akhil Reed Amar, "On Pardons, Framers Had Wars in Mind," latimes.com, Feb. 10, 2001.

"Personal canvassing is highly effective, much more so than the direct-mail and telemarketing campaigns that have come to replace it."

-- Director of the Institute for Social and Policy Studies Donald Green and associate professor of political science Alan Gerber in their article for the American Political Science Review, quoted in "Get Personal to Get Out the Vote," washingtonpost.com, Feb. 10, 2001.

"We wanted to learn whether the frame around the face -- the hairstyle -- can significantly alter how a person is seen. We found that different hairstyles quickly lead others to 'see' different kinds of people."

-- Professor of women's & gender studies Marianne LaFrance, "University Study Concludes Hairstyles Make or Break Your First Impression; Evidence Reveals Different Hairstyles are Linked to Perceived Personality Traits," Canada NewsWire, Feb. 21, 2001.

"Those who want to repeal the estate tax -- now referred to as the 'death' tax -- always point out that it is a minor source of federal revenues, less than 1 1/2% of the total. But there are still sizable dollars at stake. In 1999, fewer than 50,000 taxable estates contributed $28 billion to the federal government. Estate tax receipts are projected to grow to about $40 billion by 2008."

-- Justus S. Hotchkiss Professor of Law Michael J. Graetz in his article "Why Repeal a Tax That the Taxed Believe In?" latimes.com, Feb. 20, 2001.

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

Study shows cocaine can harm brain permanently

Forums explore democracy on local level

Director Spike Lee slams 'same old' black stereotypes in today's films

Head of NFL explains the economics of running a football league

Brooks appointed to Sterling Professor of French and Comparative Literature

Nordhaus is Sterling Professor of Economics

YCIAS awarded Carnegie grant to support study of globalization

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