Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 25, 2003|Volume 31, Number 27

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"Most of us teach our children to tip at least 15 percent. Yet we generally don't tell them how much they should give to charity. In fact, most people don't even know how much they themselves gave to charity."

-- Ian Ayres, the William K. Townsend Professor of Law, and Barry Nalebuff, the Milton Steinbach Professor of Management, in their article "Charity Begins at Schedule A," The New York Times, April 15, 2003.

"All the big airlines have to restructure. It will take place inside bankruptcy or in the shadow of bankruptcy."

-- Michael E. Levine, adjunct professor at the Law School, "Don't Expect Bailout, White House Tells Airlines," The Dallas Morning News, March 29, 2003.

"Since the books can be cooked, and it will be legal to do so [under a proposed Japanese plan], only the people who now run the company would know for sure what it's worth. Only management would know how much bad news is being hidden."

-- David De Rosa, adjunct professor at the Yale School of Management, "Investors Must Run Earnings Gauntlet: SARS Another Worry," National Post's Financial Post & FP Investing, April 5, 2003.

"[Mona Lisa is] supposed to be a relatively young woman in her early twenties. If you look at her hands, there's no question that she has swollen fingers. There's no question that she's holding her hands in the particular attitude that we're accustomed to seeing on the upper abdomens of women far advanced in pregnancy."

-- Dr. Sherwin Nuland, clinical professor of surgery, "Could This Be the Secret of Her Smile? Five Hundred Years After Leonardo Painted the Most Famous Picture in Western Art, New Research Suggests That His Model May Have Been an Expectant Mother -- And That He Painted Her For Precisely That Reason," The Daily Telegraph (London), April 7, 2003.

"Can a war in a country whose gross domestic product is less than that of most American states rip the fabric of global economic cooperation? Looking at what has happened to NATO and the U.N. in the months leading up to the Iraq war, no one should discount the possibility. Multilateral economic diplomacy has never been more important."

-- Jeffrey E. Garten, dean of the Yale School of Management, in his article "Why the Group of Eight Needs To Meet Right Now," Business Week, April 7, 2003.

"[Machu Picchu] shows what the New World had achieved before the Spanish arrived. ... [The Spanish] could not believe how people, people without writing, could have built something like this."

-- Lucy Salazar, manager at the Peabody Museum of Natural History, The International Herald Tribune, March 20, 2003.

"Trade is the most efficient way of introducing competition, weeding out inefficiency and providing stimulus for innovation. It opens up the economy. It is the tried and tested way of improving economy."

-- T. N. Srinivasan, the Samuel C. Park Jr. Professor of Economics, about the effect of globalization on India's economy, "Go Full Steam on Liberalization," Financial Express, March 21, 2003.

"You are seeing the consequences of what has been a right wing coup d'etat in the U.S. And this is only the beginning."

-- David Apter, the Henry J. Heinz II Professor Emeritus of Comparative Political & Social Development, "Many in the West Question Legitimacy of War," New Straits Times (Malaysia), March 29, 2003.

"While the Geneva Conventions are invaluable ... they are not a suicide pact. They do not require you to jeopardize yourself."

-- Harold Hongju Koh, the Gerard C. & Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law, "Rules of War: Like So Much Sand in the Desert, They Are Ever-Shifting," The Hartford Courant, April 4, 2003.

"Playwrights are a funny bunch. They're like dogs in the park who sniff each other out."

-- Donald Margulies, instructor at the School of Drama, "A New Haven Playwright at Home in the World," New Haven Register, April 13, 2003.

"I think it's a way of thinking, structuring the world and analyzing it in a rational framework. People's behavior, in truth, departs often from rationality, but to be able to decompose a problem, structure it and understand what the working parts are and how they relate to one another, that's what economic modeling is all about."

-- President Richard C. Levin on why being an economist has helped in his role as Yale's president, "Yale President Marks 10th Year at Ivy League School," The Associated Press, April 14, 2003.

"[Painter Winslow] Homer's images of rural childhood is at a time in America, particularly after the Civil War, [when] images like that probably were quite comforting. Also, it comes at a time where there are more and more people moving into cities, and you had the problems of urban life. And so, if you read Harper's Magazine, which was very popular and came into lots of homes, I can imagine looking at these images would be quite comforting or satisfying."

-- Helen A. Cooper, the Holcombe T. Green Curator of American Painting, "Homer's Odyssey; Illustrations and Paintings by Popular Artist Depict Social Times in 19th-Century America," The Hartford Courant, April 10, 2003.

"[Back pain] stops you from working, stops you from playing with your kid."

-- Dr. James Yue, assistant professor of orthopaedics, "A Real Pain in the Disk," The Hartford Courant, April 6, 2003.

"The technology sector is crucial to the economy, and personal computers to the tech sector -- and consumers and businesses no longer replace their PCs on cue. The U.S. computer industry will either deal with this fact or come screeching to a traumatic halt soon."

-- David Gelernter, professor of computer science, in his article "Candy-Coated Electronics," The Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2003.

"When we started this research we thought the pathological liar -- as opposed to the average person who lies occasionally to avoid social embarrassment or conflict -- was a tiny minority. Now I am not so sure. There are a surprising number of plausible pathological liars out there."

-- Dr. Charles Dike, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, about a forthcoming study on the topic, "Addicted to Whoppers," The Australian, April 16, 2003.

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Juniors honored for 'good labor in the world' and musical gifts

Richard Sewall dies, was first master of Ezra Stiles College

Pioneering immunobiologist Dr. Charles Janeway Jr. dies

New award will honor creativity of School of Nursing students

Concert to help raise funds for year-round, overflow homeless shelter

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