-- Harris Associate Professor of Child Psychoanalysis Dr. Steven Marans, "Program Marks 10 Years of Trying to Break Cycle of Violence in Children," The Associated Press, June 13, 2001.
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"The criminal justice system is from start to finish a morality play."
-- Southmayd Professor of Law Akhil Reed Amar, "Justice as a Morality Play That Ends With Shame," The New York Times, June 3, 2001.
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"There's very strong public reaction to crimes involving sex offenders. That makes it hard to come up with solutions [balancing the offenders' right to privacy and the public's safety] that work."
-- Professor of psychiatry Howard Zonana, "A Tussle Over Right to Know Where Ex-Sex Offenders Live," The Christian Science Monitor, May 30, 2001.
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"Our job isn't to dissuade mothers from using child care by sending up these horror stories [about possible harmful effects of day care]. Our real task is to do a public-education campaign with parents to get quality care."
-- Sterling Professor of Psychology Edward Zigler, "Media's Eye on Moms," The Christian Science Monitor, May 30, 2001.
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"It's the wrong interpretation of what really happened. This has been one of the most successful programs in the history of biomedical research."
-- Director of the Yale Cancer Center Dr. Vincent DeVita about recent criticism of the war on cancer launched in the 1970s, "Volleys in the Cancer War," U.S. News & World Report, June 18, 2001.
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"We can't make sense of why a 1-year-old would be on Prozac."
-- Assistant professor of psychiatry at the Child Study Center Dr. Andres Martin, "Study: 5 Percent of Connecticut Children Covered by State Insurance Take Psychiatric Drugs," The Associated Press, June 4, 2001.
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"[I]n the minds of many Palestinians, suicide bombings are not irrational, and until peacemakers can begin to make a dent in that psychology, any attempts at peace are likely to prove fleeting."
-- William N. & Marie A. Beach Professor of Management Sciences Edward H. Kaplan and Frederic D. Wolfe Professor of Economics & Management Sharon M. Oster in their article "Suicide Bombers Threaten Future," USA Today, June 4, 2001.
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"Families under economic stress are least prepared to help children succeed in school. This increases the children's likelihood of being dropouts and poorly employed in the next generation. It also increases the likelihood that they will display problem behaviors that will be more costly to society than helping their families function well in the first place."
-- Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry Dr. James P. Comer in his article "Don't Reduce State Aid to Poor Families," New Haven Register, May 31, 2001.
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"Ovarian cancer is the major pelvic cancer hazard for women in the United States. The number of new patients per year has been fairly stable over the last 20 years, but the mortality rate has decreased only by a limited degree."
-- John Slade Ely Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology Dr. Peter E. Schwartz, "A Matter of Sex -- Many Diseases Strike Women More Cruelly Than They Do Men. Now Advocates Plan To Do Something About It," Daily News (New York), June 11, 2001.
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"Trauma theory helps others see that until the painful, oppressive stories of violence are spoken and heard, the violence just keeps recirculating. It's crucial that we address these issues if we don't want to pass them on to our children."
-- Associate professor of theology Serene Jones, "Suffering from Trauma Shouldn't Be Romanticized, Experts Say," The Charleston Gazette, June 8, 2001.
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"A mentally retarded defendant can be found 'not insane' and hence be deemed competent to stand trial and be convicted because he arguably understood the difference between right and wrong, as a child might understand that difference. Such a defendant can be executed without ever grasping the most basic legal principles that decided his fate."
-- Gerard C. & Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh in his op-ed article "A Dismal Record on Executing the Retarded," The New York Times, June 14, 2001.
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"Like any American who believes in freedom and human rights, sure, I'd like to see the world move [toward freedom]. But you have to be a realist. It's not clear you can effect political transformation everywhere in the world."
-- President Richard C. Levin, "Welcome to Global U.," The New Haven Advocate, June 14, 2001.
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"Certainly, sunlight causes skin damage, but sugar is responsible for about half of all skin aging. It causes inflammation, which damages skin cells and causes saggy, thick, discolored skin."
-- Assistant clinical professor of dermatology Dr. Nicholas Perricone, "Iron Out the Wrinkles With Doctor's Face-Saving Diet," The New York Post, May 29, 2001.
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"[T]he private eye is most often trying to find someone, or something. . . . If well researched, such books warn us that privacy is very hard to maintain, for most of us are a tissue of ID numbers as real as a hank of hair and a shard of bone."
-- Randolph W. Townsend Jr. Professor of History Robin W. Winks in his book-review column "PIs? Make Mine Hard-Boiled," Boston Sunday Globe, May 27, 2001.
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"[I]n a book that announces itself to be about women of adventure, one begins to long for the woman who cared nothing for balance -- who didn't seek to salve her 'woman's heart' while she was climbing mountains or crossing abysses; who set her priorities otherwise, choosing asceticism perhaps, like the radical Catholic Dorothy Day, or living self-indulgently and neurotically like salonniere and aesthete Mabel Dodge Luhan, or finding her love in political work, like 'Mother' Ella Reeve Bloor."
-- Stanley Woodward Professor of History & American Studies Nancy F. Cott in her review of Elaine Showalter's "Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage," "A Canon of One's Own," The American Prospect, Inc., June 4, 2001.
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"I suspect this is the placebo effect. People come expecting to see what they're told they're going to see. They want him to be legitimate. But that's not the same as evidence."
-- Assistant professor of neurology Dr. Steven Novella about Eric Pearl, who claims to have a healing power in his hands, "This Strange Power," New Haven Register,
June 11, 2001.
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"There's no duty under customary international law to extradite defendants for most anything, unless there's a treaty."
-- Professor of law Ruth Wedgwood, "U.S. Sees Flight Risk by Lucent Suspects; No Extradition Treaty in Effect With China," The Record (Bergen County, NJ), June 4, 2001.
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"When you design, the spirit has to be that users are never stupid, only designs are stupid. . . . The theory was to make it easier for old people to vote; do something special here, because our audience is not quite up to it. That's a terrible way to begin designing a project, to assume your users are stupid."
-- Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Computer Science and Statistics Edward R. Tufte about Florida's "butterfly ballot," "Lone Star Living; Edward Tufte: The Professor of Design Explains It All For You," The Associated Press, June 6, 2001.
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"Investing on emotion is like walking into a heated area wearing a backpack of explosives."
-- Yale Corporation Member Charles D. Ellis, "Financial Planners: Their Hour to Shine is Here," The Baltimore Sun, May 30, 2001.
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"People who take the [AIDS treatment] drugs feel better. They see a decrease in their viral load, become confident the drugs work and then become more sexually active. When that happens, they may not practice safe sex."
-- Chair of the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health Dr. Michael H. Merson, "AIDS at 20," Newsweek, June 11, 2001.
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"Even recent news about the resurgence of infections among young men who have sex with men would not have made headlines had it not been for the sharp reductions in incidence previously brought about by politically contentious but effective prevention measures."
-- Associate professor of epidemiology, public health and pharmacology at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS Dr. Robert Heimer in his letter to the editor "Overlooking AIDS Prevention," The New York Times, June 12, 2001.
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"It's something of a mystery how people's confidence changes. Now, the market has rallied from bottom and a lot of people are heartened by that. Also, the Dow crossing 11,000 has symbolic value. But I think these are short-run variations that are not of much long-run significance. I think the market is overpriced but, right now, belief in the market is kind of steady."
-- Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics Robert J. Shiller, "With the Fed's Attention, Stocks Seem to be Roaring Back," The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 12, 2001.
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"There will no doubt be a range of responses, from a delight in retribution to a feeling of emptiness."
-- Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature & French Peter Brooks about how victims' relatives might react to the execution of Timothy McVeigh, "For Survivors, Execution Isn't the End," The Christian Science Monitor, June 11, 2001.
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"Since the most recent school shootings started in the fall of 1997, 32 students and three teachers have been shot to death at U.S. elementary or secondary schools, an annual rate of less than one death per 4 milion students. This includes deaths from gang fights, robberies and accidents as well as from incidents such as at Columbine High School in Colorado. By contrast, during that same period, 53 students died playing high school football."
-- Research affiliate at the Law School John Lott in his article, "Zero Tolerance Equals Zero Thinking," latimes.com, June 13, 2001.
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