-- John G. Searle Professor at the School of Management Victor H. Vroom, "Now Is Not the Time to Take a Poll," The Hartford Courant, Nov. 15, 2001.
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"Racial segregation today is the result of a complicated mix of social, political, legal, and economic factors, rather than the result of direct state commands. Yet whatever the causes, it remains overwhelmingly the case that minority children in central cities are educated in virtually all-minority schools with decidedly inferior facilities and educational opportunities."
-- Knight Professor of Constitutional Law & the First Amendment Jack M. Balkin in his article "Is the 'Brown' Decision Fading to Irrelevance?" The Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 9, 2001.
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"Like everybody else, like President Bush and [British] Prime Minister Blair and all of our fighting men and women, I'm hoping for an extraordinarily lucky or accurate bomb that seals bin Laden in his cave."
-- Director of the Center for the Study of Globalization Strobe Talbott, "U.S. Can Beat Taliban, U.S. Ex-Official Says," The Plain Dealer, Nov. 6, 2001.
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"[Canaan, Connecticut] successfully made a transition to a different use of the land [once used by industry], and you know that is a big issue all over the world. Relatively few places have succeeded in making that transition."
-- Professor of geology & geophysics Robert B. Gordon, "Unearthing the History of Canaan's Beckley Furnace," The Hartford Courant, Nov. 4, 2001.
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"But once we see that shame and dignity are the real concerns when, say, we are detained, searched or questioned at an airport, the agents' behavior has to be decisive. Decency in how we are treated will make the difference between a mere inconvenience and a fundamental violation of dignity."
-- Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law Jed Rubenfeld in his article "It Isn't Exposed Private Parts We Should Be Worried About," The Houston Chronicle, Nov. 4, 2001.
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"One study done at the Los Alamos National Laboratory found that traffic jams after a bio-terror incident would actually funnel thousands of people into the downwind cloud of an attack, greatly increasing casualties. In this case, the transportation system would be the unintentional killer because it would increase the number of people exposed to the lethal germs."
-- Professor at the Yale School of Management Paul Bracken in his article "Ridge Should Become Our 'Chief Risk Officer,'" Newsday, Nov. 9, 2001.
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"It turned out that the tools didn't correspond to what people wanted to do. None of it was simple enough. It was like killing a gnat with a nuclear missile."
-- Professor of computer science David Gelernter about efforts in the 1980s to create highly advanced software to allow researchers to work together, "Machine-Made Links Change the Way Minds Can Work Together," The New York Times, Nov. 5, 2001.
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"But that's what university presses do. We often publish books not expecting to make a huge amount of money on them. It's the mission of the Press and the University. We have a tradition of taking risks on books on sometimes obscure topics that oftentimes become the only book of its kind. We're proud to do it."
-- Senior editor at the Yale Press Lara Heimert, "From Academic Esoterica to Mainstream Must-Read: Yale Press' 'Taliban' Shoots to No. 1," New Haven Register, Nov. 4, 2001.
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"We have to do a better job in explaining to the American people that there was a pattern [to the anthrax attacks], that we felt pretty comfortable over the last number of days that a pattern developed, of following certain letters and who was exposed; that that pattern was broken in the last several days. . . . And the pattern of the last several days is not going to be necessarily the pattern of the next several days, because whoever is doing that is deliberately keeping us on edge. It's not just a lack of experts. We know a lot about anthrax. We know how to treat anthrax. We know how, I mean, to search for the source, to do the epidemiology, to do the tests. But I think we're deliberately being kept off-guard here."
-- Dean of the School of Medicine Dr. David Kessler, "Talk of the Nation," National Public Radio, Oct. 31, 2001.
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"We are entering an era, in my view, where the U.S. involvement in the affairs of other countries is going to be so deep and so broad and touch on issues that we never, ever thought about, even at the height of our problems during the Cold War."
-- Dean of the Yale School of Management Jeffrey E. Garten, "Security to Bring More Restrictions on Trade, Overseas Business, Expert Says," Virginian-Pilot, Nov. 9, 2001.
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"Basically this technical committee [overseeing Microsoft] will be three staff people that are constantly on alert for the Justice Department watching everything that Microsoft does. That's a far different situation than was true of any consent decree involving Microsoft; indeed it's far more rigorous than any consent decree I've ever heard of in the antitrust field."
-- John M. Olin Professor of Law & Economics George Priest, "Microsoft -- the Settlement," The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Nov. 6, 2001.
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"When you're sleep-deprived, your resources to control behavior get eroded."
-- Director of the Center for Eating & Weight Disorders Dr. Kelly Brownell, "Try to Meet Our Holiday Challenge; Get Through the Season Without Losing -- or Gaining -- a Pound," washingtonpost.
com, Nov. 14, 2001.
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"Take the news reports that Osama bin Laden told his mom, a few days before September 11, that he was going to have to be quiet for a while. In a trial in a federal court, you'd have to have his mother testify for that piece of evidence to be admissible. If she told a friend about the call, the friend's testimony would be hearsay."
-- Professor of Law Ruth Wedgwood on the advantages of military tribunals over federal courts, "Infinite Justice; Can Courts Try Terrorists?" The New Republic, Nov. 19, 2001.
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"When parents hide [information or fears], children think that's how you are supposed to behave when you are afraid."
-- Associate professor of pediatrics Dr. David J. Schonfeld, "Monday Crash in NYC
May Fuel Fear of Flying," boston.com, Nov. 15, 2001.
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"Even though I live in an economics department, I can't understand why models of extreme rationality are so popular."
-- Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics Robert J. Shiller, "When Being Late Is Good for Business; Companies Increasingly Banking on Their Customers' Procrastination," washingtonpost.com, Nov. 11, 2001.
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