-- Southmayd Professor of Law Akhil Reed Amar
in his op-ed article "Taking the Fifth Too Often," The New York Times, Feb. 18, 2002.
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"We're not telling parents to keep kids off the bus. We are saying the ride to school could be healthier."
-- Associate professor of environmental risk analysis & policy John Wargo about his study showing exposure to diesel fuel fumes on a school bus carries health risks, "Study Shows Dangers of Diesel Fumes," The Associated Press, Feb. 7, 2002.
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"In the Muslim world, action against Iran would add weight to the belief that the United States is primarily interested in advancing an Israeli agenda at the expense of regional stability."
-- Professor of history Abbas Amanat in his article "A Risky Message to Iran," The New York Times, Feb. 10, 2002.
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"When you expand intellectual property rights, you narrow the right to free speech."
-- Knight Professor of Constitutional Law & the First Amendment Jack Balkin, "High Court To Hear Copyright Challenge," The Houston Chronicle, Feb. 20, 2002.
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"[T]he Mormons, like the Jews before them, are a religion that became a people."
-- Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom, "The Church of the West," The Economist, Feb. 9, 2002.
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"[With high-tech toys], you have to answer the way the computer wants you to. [But] when a child plays with dolls, blocks or Legos, they can be anything, anyone, go anywhere -- their imagination soars."
-- Senior research scientist in the Department of Psychology Dorothy G. Singer, "'Toys? But I'm 10 Now!'" washingtonpost.com, Feb. 17, 2002.
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"I'm predicting lousy returns in the stock market over the next 10 to 20 years."
-- Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics Robert J. Shiller, "Wall Street's Bulls Like the Rams," United Press International,
Jan. 30, 2002.
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"Taking stock of [writer Langston Hughes'] life, I don't know anyone else who is as productive and accomplished across genre and time. The word prolific truly applies to this man."
-- Lecturer in Afro American Studies Elizabeth Alexander, "Yale Showcases Hughes' Diversity," Connecticut Post, Feb. 21, 2002.
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"[O]ne of the greatest resources that we export to the world, in addition to democracy and wonderful value systems, is not the entertainment industry, it's not the aerospace industry, it's not other wonderful, fabulous industries that we export; it's having trustworthy financial systems. . . . The trust factor is our biggest thing to export, and that trust factor's been damaged badly."
-- Adjunct professor at the Yale School of Management Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, "Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Rick Antle, Yale School of Management, Discuss the Enron Scandal," "Market Week With Maria Bartiromo," CNBC, Feb. 8, 2002.
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"One test of the trial [of former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic] is to what degree we can present proof of actual direct involvement versus how much it will revolve around theories of command responsibility. For credibility in the region, it's important that there be more specific evidence because the command responsibility theory is often just seen as criminalized negligence -- failure to control."
-- Professor of law Ruth Wedgwood, "At the Hague, It's a Leader on Trial, Not a People," The New York Times, Feb. 17, 2002.
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"The process of change seems completely daunting, because food habits are so engrained, and the food companies are massively powerful. But if you look back 30 years ago, you would have said the tobacco industry was massively powerful, and no one would have thought there was any hope for changes. But now you can't smoke in public places, there are sky-high taxes on cigarettes, and states have sued tobacco companies. I think we are at the very beginning of a similar movement with food."
-- Director of the Center for Eating & Weight Disorders Dr. Kelly Brownell, "Food For Thought For a Fat Nation -- Does Food Industry Exert Undue Influence Over Our Willpower?" USA Today, Feb. 19, 2002.
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"I've never fully understood why it was that China was so desperate to become a member of the WTO. . . . [T]here probably is no other nation in the world that is so jealous of protecting its domestic sovereignty. And once you join the WTO, you have given up some of that sovereignty to this international body. So I'm looking forward to see how this works out, the first time the WTO tries to tell China what to do."
-- Adjunct professor at the Yale School of Management David De Rosa, "Tough Call," "Market Call," CNNfn, Feb. 19, 2002.
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"I've sent out different types of testers -- black men, black women, white men and white women -- and seen whether dealers treat them differently. And that testing particularly shows that dealerships systematically offer higher prices to African-American men and women."
-- William K. Townsend Professor of Law Ian Ayres, "Studies Show Benefits From Price Shopping Online, Especially For Minorities and Women," Marketplace, Feb. 18, 2002.
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"Most people beyond Russia's borders have no idea that the nation devotes more land than any other to what the World Conservation Union calls 'strict nature reserves,' areas dedicated mainly to science and usually closed except to researchers. Russia's 100 reserves cover some 83 million acres, an expanse equal to America's national park system, but with stricter protections. Through a century marked by ecocide -- toxic releases, poisoned lands, nuclear accidents -- Russian naturalists have battled, often against a totalitarian government, to save [these] refuges. The defense of Russia's reserves represents one of the most heroic but hidden stories of nature conservation in the 20th century."
-- Lecturer in English and the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Fred Strebeigh in his article "Where Nature Reigns: Russia's Underfunded Yet Vast Ecological Reserves Are Rich With Brown Bears, Wild Honey and Rare Humanity," Sierra magazine, March-April 2002.
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