-- Associate professor of psychiatry, pharmacology
and neurobiology Marina Picciotto,
"Smoke Out: Addicts May Get Some Help From
Yale Studies," New Haven Register, Jan. 24, 2002.
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"I think that the partners of [the accounting firm] Arthur Andersen would trade the ten million and
every other bit of profit they made from Enron the
last ten years immediately, today to be out from
under this situation."
-- Professor at the Yale School of Management
Rick Antle, "Rewriting the Rules,"
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Jan. 17, 2002.
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"I worried about [death from anesthesia] when my own children were operated on. In very rare cases, people can have an allergic reaction and indeed die."
-- Professor of anesthesiology, internal medicine & surgery Dr. Stanley H. Rosenbaum, "Safe Procedure Sometimes Goes Awry," The New York Times, Jan. 27, 2002.
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"The works of Mozart and Shakespeare and Voltaire have traveled around the globe, as for that matter have Stravinksy, jazz and George Orwell. But they all pretty much stop at the frontiers of the Arab world, which has shown little interest in how others think, write, compose. . . ."
-- J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History Paul Kennedy in his review of the book "What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response," "The Real Culture Wars," The New York times, Jan. 27, 2002.
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"Stereotypes have an obvious downside: They are sometimes wrong. . . . After all, if they were wrong all the time, no rational person would use them, and if they were never wrong, they would be indisputable facts, not stereotypes. Stereotypes fall somewhere in between these extremes, but it is hard to know precisely where, because we seldom know precisely how accurate they are."
-- Professor of law Peter H. Schuck in his article "Context is Everything with Racial Profiling; No One Would Think It Wrong to Use Profiling to Screen for bin Laden," Los Angeles Times, Jan. 27, 2002.
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"[W]e have no good statistics on hospital errors. Even if it's half of what they say, it's alarming."
-- Professor Emeritus of Sociology Charles Perrow, "Poor Records Hide Hospital Error Rates," New Haven Register, Jan. 20, 2002.
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"These [Olympic] athletes breathe in anywhere from 30 to 200 times more air than non-athletes do. With all that hyperventilation, they are also getting a lot more of whatever's in the air, whether it's pollen or the sort of pollution you see in the Los Angeles areas. So if you're getting all that air, and if you have an allergy, you've got a recipe for a big problem."
-- Associate clinical professor of pediatrics Dr. Christopher Randolph, "Olympic Rule Puts Spotlight on Asthma and Exercise," latimes.com, Feb. 4, 2002.
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"Korea as a nation needs to reach out to its young people. The opinions of youth are politely listened to, then dismissed with a pat on the head, if not ignored. Korea fails to see the disaster ahead."
-- Freshman Adrian Hong in his article "Parents to Blame for Lack of Values," The Korea Herald, Jan. 19, 2002.
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"One thing that [psychologists] discovered is that people tend to focus on very small risks and they ignore -- don't put sufficient attention to -- the very big ones. So people will do things like insure their laptop computer or something small when they're in fact taking much bigger risks and not thinking about them in their investment portfolio."
-- Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics Robert J. Shiller, "Nightly Business Report," National Public Radio, Jan. 21, 2002.
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"There is going to be more of a market for crazy fad diets as more people are desperate to lose weight, but they live in an environment that makes it nearly impossible."
-- Director of the Center for Eating & Weight Disorders Dr. Kelly Brownell, "Riding the Subway to Fitness," USA Today, Feb. 5, 2002.
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"That gives audiences of black folk goose bumps now. . . . I stand around and sing, and . . . we come to that spot, everybody shifts their posture, chest goes out a little bit, you know, and there's determination in the set of the jaw and in the eyes with that. There's body language accompanying that tonal shift from major to minor."
-- Adjunct professor at the School of Music Willie Ruff about the audience's reaction to "Lift Every Voice and Sing," "History of 'Lift Every Voice and Sing,'" "Morning Edition," National Public Radio, Feb. 4, 2002.
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"The specter of us holding people in cages for a long time, just offshore, invites the same conduct [by other countries]. Do we want to create a situation where the same people who have been objecting to what's going in the communist side of Cuba now have to defend what's going on in the American part of Cuba?"
-- Gerard C. & Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh, "U.S. May Hold Terror Suspects Indefinitely," The Wall Street Journal,
Jan. 18, 2002.
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"It really is an abuse of the public to suggest that carbohydrates are bad for your health."
-- Director of Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center David Katz about the scientific evidence to the contrary, "The Lean Plate Club: Going With the Grain," washingtonpost.com, Feb. 5, 2002.
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"Childhood obesity is a huge epidemic in our society. It's really important to keep the children active and to change them to healthy lifestyles while they are young, because there is more success the earlier you intervene."
-- Research associate in the pediatrics department Gina Barbetta, "Ex-NBA Star Aids Kids in Diabetes Study," Connecticut Post, Feb. 4, 2002.
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"[Langston Hughes] went through a long, long lonely period. He learned to be independent. It's probably what made him a poet."
-- Elizabeth Wakeman Dwight Curator of the Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Library Patricia Willis, "Yale Exhibit Gives 'Busboy Poet' His Due," New Haven Register, Feb. 4, 2002.
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"Enron could not have existed in New York or Massachusetts. There's a willingness [in the Sunbelt states] to take risks with this kind of business leader that is admirable. They will break old patterns. They are the source of innovation. They take major steps based on gut instinct, and they often don't calculate the downside."
-- Professor at the Yale School of Management Paul Bracken, "Ex-Enron Chief to Take Case to D.C.," The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC), Feb. 3, 2002.
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"Few critics of our war on terrorism claim that it is a racist war of the kind so prominent in denunciations of American imperialism past. Many black Americans feel at least a sneaking pride in the presence of Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell in the war's highest councils."
-- Lecturer in political science James Sleeper in his review of "The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena," "The Reds and the Blacks," washingtonpost.com, Feb. 4, 2002.
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"Enron board members seemed to happily wear their ceremonial roles around the table -- government official, professor -- without putting their skills to work, let alone switching their perspectives."
-- Associate dean at the Yale School of Management Jeffrey Sonnenfeld in his article "How Go-Along Boards Jam Up Firms," USA Today, Feb. 6, 2002.
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"Foreign investment will shy away from a country that remains deeply distrustful of its own entrepreneurs and lets politics rather than economics, dictate business decisions."
-- Director of publications at the Center for the Study of Globalization Nayan Chanda in his article "Halfhearted Modernity in Vietnam," The International Herald Tribune, Feb. 5, 2002.
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"Inflated war talk is a defining characteristic of the modern presidency; recall the war against poverty, the war against crime, the war against drugs. Martial rhetoric is a response to our system of separate powers. . . . [B]y calling something a war, the commander in chief might get the House of Representatives and Senate to defer to him in the way it does when a real war is going on."
-- Sterling Professor of Law & Political Science Bruce Ackerman in his article "War is Handy Politics for Bush," latimes.com, Feb. 4, 2002.
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"A lot of Harlem was built at the turn of the century and that's set in stone, but there are also are lot of missing teeth: burnt-out buildings and empty lots. They could be filled with apartments and houses and other kinds of uses that can represent the time in which they are being built."
-- Adjunct assistant professor of architecture Victor Body-Lawson, "To Be New and True to Harlem," The New York Times, Jan. 31, 2002.
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"If you're a hit man, you leave after you serve your sentence. If you're a violent sexual offender, someone with more than an antisocial personality disorder, you're seen as a person unable to control himself, so there are special laws within a very narrow legal definition."
-- Professor of psychiatry and adjunct clinical professor of law Howard Zonana about laws requiring sex offenders to register with police, "Computer Flaw Allowed Snelgrove To Go Free," Hartford Courant, Feb. 1, 2002.
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"In some respects, this is an academic debate. The distinction between POWS and "unlawful combatants" doesn't make any difference in the mode of interrogation or in chossing military trials, closing courtrooms or considering hearsay evidence. The Geneva Convention permits each of these, even for POWs."
-- Professor of law Ruth Wedgwood in her article "Why They're Outlaws, Not POWs," Time, Feb. 4, 2002.
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