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April 26, 2002Volume 30, Number 27



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"Poor poets. Unlike the novelist, who can at least dream of a blockbuster or a tap on the shoulder from Oprah, nobody but nobody makes a living writing poetry."

-- Lecturer in African American studies Elizabeth Alexander in her article "A Poet Finds Appreciation in Often Unexpected Places," The Hartford Courant, April 7, 2002.

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"I personally am surprised at the durability of essentially an economic hoax. And the hoax is, as follows, that if you raise taxes and cut the deficit, you will cause the economy to expand. If anything is the causality it is that an expansion in the economy will cause the deficit to go down."

-- Adjunct professor at the Yale School of Management David De Rosa, "Tough Call: Should Congress Raise U.S. Debt Levels to Finance War on Terror Now?" "Market Call," CNNfn, April 5, 2002.

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"The most important element in the 1974-75 embargo and the 1979-81 embargo was surprise. We'd never conceived that there would be a sharp reduction of the trade volume world wide."

-- Williams Brothers Professor of Management Studies Paul W. MacAvoy, "Recent World Oil Turbulence Reveals United States' Decreasing Vulnerability to Regional Flare-Ups," The Associated Press, April 12, 2002.

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"[A]s long as the defects remain, many will regard the [military] tribunals as little more than a politically expedient means of retribution by an administration that neither wants to treat the captives as prisoners of war -- a status that would justify their detention until the end of hostilities but not their prosecution -- nor wishes to entrust the prosecution of some for criminal offenses to the federal courts."

-- Professor of political science David R. Cameron in his article "Tribunals Unconstitutional and Unnecessary," New Haven Register, April 16, 2002.

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"This kind of alienation is a palace in revolt."

-- Adjunct professor at the Yale School of Management Jeffrey Sonnenfeld about Hewlett-Packard employees who have leaked negative information about the company's merger to the press, "Members of H-P Integration Team Distracted by Lawsuit," USA Today, April 15, 2002.

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"New Haven is not that big. We think about growth as regional growth. There are some companies whose needs can be met in New Haven and there are others that want bigger pieces of land and campus settings. To us, what's important is the economy of the whole region."

-- Vice president & director of the Office of New Haven & State Affairs Bruce Alexander, "Biotech's Exiting Wounds; New Haven Losing Jobs, More as Firms Outgrow It," boston.com, April 17, 2002.

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"There's a lot of conceptual art around today because it's easy. It's much easier to think about something than to make something. But the absolute fundamental core of art is that you don't know ahead of time what the thing you're making is going to become. To me, you can't have the thing in your mind become clear without giving birth to a physical thing."

-- Dean of the School of Art Richard Benson, "Can Art Be Taught?; How a Dismissal at Harvard Threw An Entire Field Into Question," The New Yorker, April 15, 2002.

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"The regulatory law is quite clear. If the pleasure of the American people overwhelms the capacity to preserve a park for future generations, then the pleasure of the American people has to be tempered."

-- Randolph W. Townsend Jr. Professor of History Robin Winks, "Deep in Carlsbad Cave, Hungry Tourists Prevail," The New York Times, April 14, 2002.

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"Greatness is the product of extraordinary people, and they emerge from time to time, or a situation emerges in which greatness can happen, and those things vary. Take Grand Central Terminal: nobody understood when it was being built that it would change New York fundamentally, and it was the product of consensus."

-- Adjunct professor at the School of Architecture Alexander Garvin, "A Plan Without a Master; Rebuilding by Committee? Robert Moses Would Cringe," The New York Times, April 14, 2002.

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"[T]he trouble with any boom is that when the music stops, it's always the 'Mum and Dad' investors left standing without a chair."

-- Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics Robert J. Shiller, "Housing Markets Sound a Warning," The Sunday Telegraph (Sydney), March 24, 2002.

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"In our adversary system, it's very important that both sides not pull their punches. The adversary system suggests a structure of doing what your adversary does and doing it better."

-- Professor of law Peter H. Schuck, "Religion and the Law; Insurance Companies Often Dictate Legal Strategies Used by Dioceses," The New York Times, April 14, 2002.

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"The choice of faith is not either/or, but both/and. Our mistake is so often seeing faith as a competitor to the rest of life rather than as an illuminating catalyst."

-- Associate Pastor of the Church of Christ in Yale The Reverend Samuel N. Slie in his article "Faith Not Competitor to Life But Catalyst," New Haven Register, April 6, 2002.

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"It's not really clear that simply moving women into jobs -- especially part-time, low-wage jobs -- will advance their children's preparation for school."

-- Adjunct professor at the Child Study Center Sharon Lynn Kagan, "Sending Moms to Work Not Helping Welfare Kids," New Haven Register, April 16, 2002.


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

Emerging leaders from 18 nations coming to Yale as first World Fellows

World Fellows diverse in nationality and experience

Alumnus' gift funds visiting chair in economics

Yale opens center for student groups

Wanted: Your views about the YB&C

Journalists decry globalization's effect on Latin America

HUD Secretary hails spirit of volunteerism in the U.S.

Streets is reappointed as chaplain and is named acting master of Trumbull College


ALUMNI NEWS

Research on genes upholds Darwin's theories, says Moore

With the eye of an engineer, scientist tackles problems of medicine

Exhibit explores transformations in American life

Communiversity Day 2002

Nobel laureate to present Farr Lecture at event showcasing student research


SCHOOL OF NURSING NEWS

In this year's 'showdown,' robots will demolish and build

Divinity School partners with Lutheran seminaries

Threats to nation's computer systems to be examined

Conference to explore relationship between 'apocalypse and violence'

Texas Rangers are subject of historian's talk

Juniors honored for their college spirit, contributions and talent

Ten scientists win NARSAD research grants

Edwin D. Mullen, long-time manager of purchasing, dies

Center marks retirement of noted child psychologist

Student musicians will perform works by Brahms in two May concerts

May Day concert to feature program of German music

Celebrating Earth Day



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