-- Justus S. Hotchkiss Professor of Law
Michael J. Graetz, "You Call This Tax
Simplification?" Business Week, March 18, 2002.
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"I feel pretty good right now. The kids fought their hardest, we competed in most of the games and I'm proud of them. Certainly after I have a chance to reflect, and take a look back at the whole season, at who we beat, how we beat them and where we beat them, it will be very special."
-- Head coach of men's basketball James Jones, "Season Beyond the Brink; Yale Men Savoring Breakthrough Year," New Haven Register, March 21, 2002.
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"[A] deliberative poll can have an effect well beyond the individual participants. It can show public officials and policy-makers that creative and daring initiatives could actually secure constituent support -- if these leaders attend to the reasons why participants in the dialogue came to embrace different views, and if they are prepared to take the risk of giving their constituents a chance to think and act like citizens."
-- Director of urban academic initiatives at the Office of New Haven & State Affairs Cynthia Farrar in her article "Civic Energy Excited by Citizen 'Poll,'" New Haven Register, March 21, 2002.
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"In the short turn, the confidence [in the stock market] is holding up terrifically. In the long run, the outlook is not good."
-- Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics Robert J. Shiller, "Market Place," The New York Times, March 12, 2002.
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"I'll urge faculty colleagues in the strongest possible language not to make phone calls or write reference letters on behalf of anyone who is not at least in their third year [of law school]. If professors stand by that, the students won't be able to apply early [for federal clerkships]."
-- Dean of the Law School Anthony Kronman, "Order in the Courts: Moratorium Set in Recruiting Judicial Clerks," washingtonpost.com, March 14, 2002.
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"You want an undeniable scientific account of what happened [in Serbia under Slobodan Milosevic]. Getting out the historical record is as important as holding someone accountable. These advances help make it impossible to erase history."
-- Gerard C. & Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh, "Doing a Number on Violators: Patrick Ball Has Pioneered the Use of Databases to Expose Atrocities. At Tribunal, He Blames Milosevic for Kosovo 'Ethnic Cleansing,'" latimes.com, March 14, 2002.
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"If we do not stop the epidemic of obesity, it's (diabetes in children) going to get worse."
-- Associate professor of endocrinology and pediatrics Sonia Caprio, "Obese Kids Showing Signs of Adult Diabetes," United Press International, March 13, 2002.
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"The risk is that a lot of hospitals may appear to be doing worse than they actually are. The public may lose confidence in local hospitals when they don't truly deserve it."
-- Associate professor of internal medicine Dr. Harlan M. Krumholz, "Study Gives Mediocre Grades to Some Health-Care Report Cards," The Associated Press, March 13, 2002.
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"Roughly speaking, if every person on Earth played 1.5 billion different draw sheets [in the March Madness college basketball tournament], only one person would get every game right."
-- William N. & Marie A. Beach Professor of Management Sciences Edward Kaplan, "Want to Win The Pool? Crunch Some Numbers," Cox News Service, March 10, 2002.
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"We spend more time looking for a car. For LASIK [eye] surgery, we go for the cheapest price or the coupon."
-- Assistant professor of ophthalmology Dr. Shachar Tauber, "Eye Contact," New Haven Register, March 14, 2002.
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"There are a whole series of costs now gradually being imbedded into the economy. In a way, you could almost think about them as taxes: security costs, insurance costs, costs of employing foreign people. It's not that companies won't be able to accommodate them. It's just that the kind of freewheeling economy that we had before, I think, is going to be much more inhibited."
-- Dean of the Yale School of Management Jeffrey E. Garten, "Re-evaluation of the Economic Impact of September 11," "Marketplace," March 11, 2002.
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"Economic importance for just a vast array of industries comes to a head at a regulatory agency like the FDA. I remember my first speech [as FDA director]. I looked out at the audience and it was a football field filled with lawyers and lobbyists and Washington types, all of whose job was to influence the agency. A permanent director's job is to put their body in between that whole outside world, all that political pounding, and the people at the agency who do their work. A permanent FDA commissioner needs to take that pounding and absorb it and protect the rank and file."
-- Dean of the School of Medicine Dr. David Kessler, "Morning Edition," National Public Radio, March 12, 2002.
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"It would be a huge plus for the Ivy League . . . and great for fans of college football in the Northeast Corridor. It would be a very competitive league. You've got a terrific match -- the uniqueness of the Ivy League, the rigorousness of the academies. . . . This would bring everything together and benefit all concerned."
-- Director of athletics Thomas Beckett, "Addition Through Forces: Yale AD Would Like to Add Army, Navy Into Ivy Mix," New Haven Register, March 12, 2002.
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"Over the past 30 or 40 years, there has been a gradual improvement in our technology, in the quality of microscopes, instruments and suture materials. What we need is a breakthrough in being able to modify the patients' healing and scarring."
-- Associate professor of plastic surgery
J. Grant Thomson, "Race to Save a Limb," The Hartford Courant, March 12, 2002.
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"[T]he world is safest when nations like the U.S. have a very strong preponderance of power of every kind -- because we're the least likely to use it. This preponderance has a deterrent effect."
-- Hillhouse Professor of Classics & History Donald Kagan, "U.S. Nuclear Posture Debated: Some Call It Prudent Diplomacy; Others Fear Use," New Haven Register, March 12, 2002.
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"It isn't enough to say, 'I was asleep in the stateroom while someone else was steering the ship.' It is the CEO's responsibility to know what is driving the company's performance."
-- Adjunct professor at the Yale School of Management Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, "How CEOs Can Keep Informed Even as Work Stretches Across Globe," The Wall Street Journal, March 12, 2002.
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"Most prodigies do not become highly gifted adults, and most highly gifted adults were not prodigies. To succeed as a gifted adult, one must undergo a certain kind of transformation."
-- IBM Professor of Psychology & Education Robert J. Sternberg, "The Uneasy Fit of the Precocious And the Average," The New York Times, March 12, 2002.
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"In terms of avoiding the scandal, and eliminating the legal liability, this is exactly the wrong thing to have done. . . . It's not simply a case of an organization whose agents have erred. It's an organization that knew about the improprieties and actively concealed it."
-- Professor of law Peter Schuck, "Secrecy Over Abusive Priests Comes Back to Haunt Church," The New York Times, March 12, 2002.
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"At one time we all wanted hair like Farrah Fawcett. Now we want our hair straight. Fashion comes and goes."
-- Professor of women's & gender studies Marianne LaFrance, "Do Straight-Haired Women Have More Fun?" The New York Times, March 17, 2002.
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"No, [painter and arts patron Katherine Dreier (18771952)] wasn't a dilettante, a rich woman dabbling in the arts. She was a player. She could relate to these artists because she labored in the fields right along with them."
-- Curator at the Yale University Art Gallery Jennifer Gross who has recreated a 1948 exhibit that celebrated the 70th birthday of the woman who donated over 1,000 objects of art to the gallery, "Arts Force For Modernism," The Hartford Courant, March 10, 2002.
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"We've had all of these shootings in high schools. In retrospect, people can always say, 'There was an untreated psychiatric disorder.' What we're trying to do is, in a prospective way, say that if you notice kids start to [exhibit troubling behavior], do something before they bring a gun to school."
-- Associate professor of psychiatry Larry Davidson, "Minding Young Minds: Psychologist Aims to Screen State's Youth to Spot and Treat Potential Mental Problems," The Hartford Courant, March 9, 2002.
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"If you remember back to how the world looked and felt six months ago, it's extraordinary how well we've done. There was a sense that it was going to be years before we could recover -- that from the president on down, this was going to be a long, hard slog. . . . The other thing about Sept. 11 is the fear many of us had that the fabric of the country was going to be strained if not torn -- and yet there was this high coalescence within American society."
-- Director of the Center for the Study of Globalization Strobe Talbott, "Experts Give Their View of World Since Sept. 11; Security, Diplomacy Crucial for Future," The San Francisco Chronicle, March 11, 2002.
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"Once we succeeded in throwing off the British yoke, Americans were able to become hegemonic in their own continent without a lot of military enemies surrounding them. . . . Now, we are vulnerable in ways the rest of the world always has been vulnerable."
-- Southmayd Professor of Law Akhil Reed Amar, "Civil Liberties Take Back Seat to Safety," latimes.com, March 10, 2002.
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"As we're enjoying consumer society, most of us don't think about the negative consequences of having too much enjoyment in life. I suspect that the average citizen, including you and me most of the time, [does not feel] the guilt that ought to be there."
-- Associate professor of psychiatry Dr. Dan A. Oren about short-term thinking on environmental issues, "When Good Winters Go Bad: Enjoy the Sunshine, But There May Be a Price to Pay," The New York Times, March 10, 2002.
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"You can't feel how heavy this book is [when doing research online]. You'll never quite get how a book smells when you open it."
-- Director of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Barbara A. Shailor, "Voluminous: Yale's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Houses Treasures From Across the Ages," New Haven Register, March 17, 2002.
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