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"Almost every country has bonds outstanding. We have a collection of them here on our wall. The reason they're hanging on our walls is that they're worthless."
-- Geert Rouwenhorst, professor at the Yale School of Management, "Creditors in U.S. See Red Over Chinese Bonds: Bondholders Want Beijing To Repay $89 Billion From Before the Communists Took Over," Financial Times (London), Jan. 30, 2003.
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"[Feminist theology] has helped people within religious thought realize that there are alternative interpretations to Scriptures. This has meant that Scriptures are unpacked in a way that is not gender-bound and that draws attention to how gender affects people, including a woman's right to choose what to do with her body."
-- Letty Russell, Professor Emeritus of Theology, "New Offerings; More Churches Are Seeking Middle Ground on Abortion Debate," New Haven Register, Jan. 26, 2003.
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"It would be like telling a newspaper what to print."
-- Jeb Rubenfeld, the Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law, about a bill that would force Cablevision in New Jersey to carry the YES Network, "Bill To Put YES On Air Advances; Assembly Proposal's Legality Questioned," The Record (Bergen County, NJ), Feb. 4, 2003.
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"[Author George Orwell] said that machines are moving in and polluting the spiritual landscape, not on purpose, but because they can't help it. This is the machine age, and no one uses a pump when you can turn on the tap. But don't think that won't cost us."
-- David Gelernter, professor of computer science, "Queen, Captured by Mouse; More Chess Players Use Computers for Edge," The New York Times, Feb. 6, 2003.
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"[I]f there were [free elections], conducted with U.N. observers, one doubts if Saddam would get the 99 percent vote he was given last year! If, in fact, the American hawks are right and Saddam is highly unpopular (but feared), then we would have 'regime change' all right, but one carried out peacefully and not by the 101st Airborne Division."
-- Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History, in his article "Flood Iraq With Inspectors From Other U.N. Agencies," New Haven Register, Feb. 10, 2003.
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"[I]f you go back and look at the history of the cost of war, you find numbers all over the place. You go back, you look at the Civil War, you look at World War I, or more recently the Vietnam War in the United States, you find routinely countries underestimating the cost by a factor of five or even 10 of what it actually costs in the end."
-- William D. Nordhaus, Sterling Professor of Economics, "The Cost of War," "Money & Markets," CNNfn, Feb. 6, 2003.
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"Unlike novelists, who have expansive, almost sponge-like imaginations, I think that the poet is to be judged by what he leaves out as much as what he puts in. It really is a process of distillation rather than of accumulation, just to make sure that things get as essential and as elegant and as intense as possible. That's the whole job of a poet."
-- J.D. McClatchy, editor of The Yale Review, "J.D. McClatchy in Motion," The Hartford Courant, Feb. 9, 2003.
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"You can't treat someone for the purpose of executing them."
-- Dr. Howard Zonana, professor of psychiatry and clinical professor of law, about giving anti-psychotic medication to a death-row prisoner in Arkansas so he will meet sanity requirements for the death penalty, "State Can Make Inmate Sane Enough to Execute," The New York Times, Feb. 11, 2003.
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"[W]e seem to value our alarm clocks more than our internal clocks."
-- Dr. Scott A. Rivkees, director of the Child Health Research Center, "Need a Lot of Sleep? Blame It on Body Clock," Reuters, Jan. 23, 2003.
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"There is no credible evidence that Americans received a lot more medical care in the past few years. But the price of health care has skyrocketed nonetheless. That inflation is because of the market power of insurers, drug manufacturers, hospitals and other suppliers of medical services."
-- Theodore Marmor, professor at the Yale School of Management, and Kip Sullivan, in their article, "Who's Shaping the Debate on Health Care Reform?" The Hartford Courant, Feb. 12, 2003.
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"We give people routine access to drugs that are far more dangerous and often far less efficacious [than marijuana] and we don't raise a question at all."
-- Dr. Alvin Novick, professor of ecology & evolutionary biology and professor of public health, "Medical Use of Marijuana Pushed," New Haven Register, Feb. 7, 2003.
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"The whole history of Head Start is one battle after another. Don't give up now; the fight has just begun."
-- Edward F. Zigler, Sterling Professor of Psychology, speaking to Head Start leaders about plans to move the program to the Education Department, "Bush's Head Start Plan Gets Cheers, Jeers; President Proposes Relocation From HHS to Education," The Washington Times, Feb. 6, 2003.
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"The best solution for fixing [Boston's City Hall Plaza] is the most drastic. Take down the buildings, tear up the plaza and start all over again."
-- Joseph Soares, associate professor of sociology, "Hub Can't Revitalize What Never Was Vital," The Boston Herald, Feb. 5, 2003.
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"It's as if we've all had a stress inoculation. As a nation, we've become numb."
-- Holly Gwen Prigerson, associate professor of psychiatry and associate professor of epidemiology & public health, "How Humans React When Bad Things Occur Again and Again," The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 7, 2003.
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Celebrating Black History Month
Three-day conference explores the musical traditions of Greece
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Digging the snow
Norbert Hirschhorn honored for pediatric research
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