-- Henry R. Luce Professor of Social Thought & Ethics & Philosophy Shelly Kagan, "So, What Are You Studying This Term?" The Hartford Courant, April 15, 2001.
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"From the standpoint of shareholder value, most of these mergers are disastrous."
-- Dean of the Yale School of Management Jeffrey E. Garten about banks buying other banks,"Bigger-is-Better Banker Hugh McColl Retiring," The Associated Press, March 31, 2001.
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"This is a new set of issues that should go up to the Supreme Court. The law 15 or even 10 years ago wasn't focused on this."
-- Southmayd Professor of Law Akhil Reed Amar about the questions surrounding post-conviction DNA testing, "U.S. Judge Says Felons Entitled to DNA Tests," washingtonpost.com, April 17, 2001.
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"I think it's fine to buy and hold for the long term, but you can't just pick one set of stocks, these hot stocks that did so well in the last half of the '90s, and expect them to do so well after that; because in fact, now that they've dropped so badly people tend to get tired of them, and it's not exciting to have cocktail conversations and talk about holding these household names anymore."
-- Professor of the practice of finance Roger Ibbotson, "Street Sweep," CNNFN, April 17, 2001.
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"Our long-term goals are pretty ambitious because we pretty much want to re-invent democracy and do it on a global scale. We're trying to create alternative institutions that would make the state unnecessary."
-- Assistant professor of anthropology David Graeber about anarchist philosophy, "Anarchy is in the Air as Summit Draws Near," The Gazette (Montreal), April 13, 2001.
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"He identified a problem that could be catastrophic, but it was not yet clear in the medical literature. And he was proposing a lifetime treatment with anti-coagulation. He met with tremendous resistance."
-- Assistant clinical professor of internal medicine Dr. David Roer about Yale's Dr. Thomas Greco's research on APS antibodies, "Treating Traitors in Patients' Own Bodies," The Hartford Courant, April 8, 2001.
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"You have to ask why they did something so stupid, because they have a lot of time to think about these things."
-- Milton Steinbach Professor of Economics & Management Barry Nalebuff about the competitors on the TV show "Survivor," which he is analyzing using game theory, "A Game Theory for 'Survivor,'" The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 20, 2001.
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"Race is not biologically definable, we are far too similar."
-- Professor of genetics and psychiatry Kenneth Kidd, "One Origin, Many Races: But Skin Color, Facial Features Still Divide," The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 18, 2001.
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"Men are often confused about what is happening to the women they love."
-- Professor of psychiatry Dr. Philip Sarrel, "Plumbing the Mystery; Men Learn the Mechanics of PMS, Menopause," USA Today, April 19, 2001.
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"The best thing about [the late Paul Mellon] as a collector was that he responded personally to art -- he wanted pictures that reflected his own lived experience. I always think that he bought our wonderful Robert Burnard oil of two children and an Exmoor pony because he saw it as a picture of himself and his sister. And he was very hands on. He kept hammer and nails at the ready and took pride in hanging his pictures himself."
-- Curator of paintings & sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art Malcolm Warner, "There is Some Corner of a Foreign Field That is Forever Horsey. Clare Henry Delights in the Paul Mellon Bequest, and Reflects on the American Collector's Romance With England," Financial Times (London), April 17, 2001.
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"We don't call them spies. We call them 'professional students.'"
-- Senior lector in East Asian languages & literatures Wei Su about the individuals who are believed to be reporting on Chinese-born citizens living on U.S. campuses, "Chinese-Born Scholars Avoid Homeland After Rash of Arrests There," The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 13, 2001.
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"The big engineering schools are taking industrial ecology and designing for the environment very seriously."
-- Senior research scientist at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Reid J. Lifset, "Growing Greener Industries; Scholars Help Companies Take a Lesson From Nature to Turn Pollution Into Profit," The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 13, 2001.
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"I have never been in any city in America where the gap between image and reality is so wide as it is in New Haven. It is time for people to appreciate that it's a new day in New Haven."
-- Vice President & Director of the Office of New Haven & State Affairs Bruce Alexander, "City Aims to Lure Visitors With Free Summer Events," New Haven Register, April 11, 2001.
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"We have to change the way engineers think about the environment. For one, we have to throw away the word 'waste.' Rather, [we should] think of it as residual resources. There is potential value in all these waste streams that may not have been realized yet."
-- Professor at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Thomas E. Graedel, "He'd Like to Throw Out the Word 'Waste,'" Business Week, April 16, 2001.
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