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November 16, 2001Volume 30, Number 11Two-Week Issue



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"The years of indulgence towards Pakistan when it was the United States of America's ally against the Evil Empire in Afghanistan has come back to haunt Washington.

-- Director of publications at the Center for the Study of Globalization Nayan Chanda in his article "PAL at the Moment of Crisis," The Telegraph, Nov. 5, 2001.

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"Building high has been a goal of mankind since biblical times. I would be surprised if that changed."

-- Dean of the School of Architecture Robert A.M. Stern, "Skyscraper for Sale -- With Strings," The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 30, 2001.

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"Both penicillin and Doxycycline work for anthrax. In fact, Cipro was approved at the request of the FDA. The FDA went to Bayer and asked Bayer to put it on its label. And the reason the FDA did that was it was concerned that if there would be a resistant strain of anthrax, a strain that we have not seen, that Cipro would then be a first line drug."

-- Dean of the School of Medicine Dr. David Kessler, "Interview With David Kessler on Cipro," CNN Live at Daybreak, Oct. 25, 2001.

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"We should not be executing people with the minds of a 10-year-old."

-- Gerard C. & Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law Harold H. Koh, "Cross Students Take Close Look at the Death Penalty," New Haven Register, Nov. 1, 2001.

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"To be on the [football] field, with the pads and helmet . . . when I got on the field the first time, it was surreal; like a dream. It brings to life everything you've read about football. Nothing is like experiencing the blow of the tackling."

-- Development officer Monty Shepardson about her experiences in the first professional women's football league, "A Gridiron Dream Comes True," New Haven Register, Oct. 30, 2001.

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"It is something about the site, the context and the program. The friction between those is what makes my architecture percolate."

-- Adjunct associate professor of architecture Turner Brooks about the project to renovate the Guilford Handcraft Center, "Crafts Center Students Team With Architect," New Haven Register, Oct. 29, 2001.

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"Sometimes the old dependables just aren't. Do champion runners sometimes coast into the final stretch? Of course. . . . As a teacher I well know that students who always deliver A work will sometimes turn in a B-plus paper and still assume it's an A: good enough."

-- Randolph W. Townsend Jr. Professor of History Robin W. Winks in his book review "Grave Misgivings," Boston Sunday Globe, Oct. 28, 2001.

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"Over 2 million people are displaced. The war on drugs as it was declared has been a failure. The gun and the machete is what speaks in Colombia. Death speaks in Colombia."

-- University Chaplain The Reverend Frederick J. Streets, "City Peace Commission Urges Aid for Addicts in War on Drugs," New Haven Register, Oct. 28, 2001.

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"The dubiousness of the [2000 presidential election] results seemed to have no bearing on [George W. Bush's] governing strategy or his agenda. If we thought for a minute that the modern presidency operates on the basis of a mandate, that was thrown out the window."

-- Peletiah Perit Professor of Political & Social Sciences Stephen Skowronek, "A Year Later, Election Seems Like Ancient History," USA Today, Nov. 6, 2001.

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"If [overeating is] a temporary phenomenon, it's not bad. It's a way to cope. For people who consistently use food to deal with stress, it's maladaptive."

-- Director of the Center for Eating & Weight Disorders Dr. Kelly Brownell, "People Turn to Food in the Midst of Stress Since Sept. 11," The Associated Press, Nov. 7, 2001.

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"Despite the panic of the moment, our domestic problems are manageable, if not completely solvable. But our international problems are utterly intractable, and the sooner we recognize this, the better."

-- Sterling Professor of Law & Political Science Bruce Ackerman in his op-ed article "On the Home Front, A Winnable War," The New York Times, Nov. 6, 2001.

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"New homes have to be built somewhere, and they're often built in what used to be a forest. We have to think about where we're putting these new houses and how much wood we're putting into them. That's when we move toward sustainability. And if we do anything short of that, then we're blowing the game."

-- Associate research scientist at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Michael Washburn, "Factions Struggle to Certify Environmental Pedigree of Lumber," Copley News Service, Nov. 5, 2001.

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"I don't think this is a juncture at which people feel great issues are being decided at the polls. There is a sense now that Connecticut and the country at large are operating under a widespread consensus about what our priorities ought to be."

-- A. Whitney Griswold Professor of Political Science and Psychology Donald Green, "Forecasts Mixed On Election Turnout," The Hartford Courant, Nov. 5, 2001.

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"It would be like arguing with the umpire. If the umpire calls something a 'strike' and you think it was really a ball, you can always complain, but as long as the umpire went by the rules, there's little you can do to change things."

-- John M. Olin Professor of Law & Economics George L. Priest about the possibility that states would continue to pursue lawsuits against Microsoft despite the settlement with the Justice Department, "State's Microsoft Response Due Today," New Haven Register, Nov. 6, 2001.

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"Our goal is to get these recordings [allegedly proving misconduct by Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma] into the public record. We feel that these are extremely important for the study of Ukraine at the very least."

-- Assistant professor of political science Keith Darden, "Europe and the Americas: Kuchma Recordings Caught Up in U.S.-Ukraine Tug-of-War: Files May Show Presidential Corruption, But Former Guard Resists Handing Them Over. And Why Does the Justice Department Want Them, Anyway?" Financial Times, Nov. 5, 2001.

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"It's hard to say whether [children's feelings about the Sept. 11 attack] will go away. They're like children raised on the San Andreas fault. Every tremor they feel from now on may evoke fear."

-- Clinical professor of psychiatry Dr. Kyle Pruett, "Children's Worries Take New Shape; Artwork Reveals the Effects of Sept. 11," The Washington Post, Nov. 2, 2001.


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

University launches review of Yale College curriculum

New hires are 'coup' for physics departments

Confessions of a 'maverick'

President Levin's Charge to the Committee on Yale College Education

Arturo Bris named Haas Assistant Professor

Yale School of Management bolsters its senior faculty ranks

Florencio López-de-Silanes, expert in world finances, to head new institute

Tragedy propels media to promote 'us-ness,' says journalist


SCHOOL OF NURSING NEWS

Yale Rep's holiday season offering is farcical tale of 'hucksterism'


IN FOCUS: Yale Center for International & Area Studies

Quarterback Peter Lee honored as an outstanding scholar-athlete

Final Tercentennial Tetelman Fellow to speak at events

'Race and Reunion' wins third annual Douglass Prize

Authentic duplication of Maya murals is laborious task

Emerging Infection Program wins support for study . . .

Ackerman to propose 'New Paradigm for Campaign Finance'

Rescheduled conference to explore ethnic cleansing in America and Europe

Art of the Restoration

Concert to feature 18th-century works and instrument

Playwright Margolin to discuss 'Theater of Desire' at master's tea

A day to remember

Yale faculty members celebrate new books

Yale aids holiday fundraiser for the Ronald McDonald House

Yale Books in Brief



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