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"I've looked at all that modernist stuff. It's crap. When Mies van der Rohe said, 'Less is more,' I said, 'Get me out of here.' You could feel the ground sinking.
-- Robert A.M. Stern, dean of the School of
Architecture, "A Stern Approach to Modernism,"
The Toronto Star, Dec. 6, 2003.
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"You don't want the temperature or the humidity too low; that makes the snow dry. The best snowballs come from wet snowstorms at the ideal temperature of 31.9 degrees -- just below freezing. If you don't have those conditions you can just dump a bucket of water on dry snow. On those really cold days in Chicago, I wouldn't get into a snowball fight."
-- John Wettlaufer, professor of geophysics & physics, "Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow; The Cold Calculations Behind Proper Snowball Fights" Chicago Tribune, Nov. 23, 2003.
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"It's important to keep in mind the tradition on which the boundaries [between faith and politics] were established. We had people coming to these shores in the 17th century to escape religious persecution and then going and setting up a theocracy."
-- Harold Attridge, dean of the Divinity School and the Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament and Religious Studies, "All Sorts of Flashing Lights To Be Found at the Intersection of Church and State," New Haven Register, Dec. 14, 2003.
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"What struck me the most watching TV was that they were using 'The End of Saddam Hussein' as the logo. I don't think it's the end. It's the beginning of the end. But the way in which the end is carried out through these justice procedures is going to determine how legitimate the Iraq exercise will be viewed in the eyes of the world."
-- Harold Koh, the Gerard C. & Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law, "Stakes Are High on Handling, Outcome of a Trial," The Boston Globe, Dec. 15, 2003.
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"Today, both NAFTA and broader U.S. trade policy are at a low point. But here is a prediction: NAFTA may have a brighter future than more global agreements. The reason is that by deepening North American integration, Washington, Ottawa and Mexico City could link economic needs with compelling national security considerations in ways that other trade agreements will not."
-- Jeffrey E. Garten, dean of the School of Management, in his article "At 10, NAFTA is Ready for an Overhaul," Business Week, Dec. 22, 2003.
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"That is what we wake up to every morning when we get the headlines in our newspapers. And consuming those images [of violence in the Middle East] paralyzes our imaginations. It creates a sense of irreconcilable differences and hopelessness and people are less apt to act [to promote peace] given that sense that nothing is really possible."
-- Dr. Bruce Wexler, professor of psychiatry, "Israeli, Palestinian Peace Talks Postponed," "Q&A," CNN International, Dec. 24, 2003.
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"Forty years ago, 90% of the public trading on the New York Stock Exchange was by individuals and 10% was by institutions. Today, 90% is institutions and 10% is individuals. That has changed everything."
-- Charles Ellis, University Trustee, "Sticking With a Plain-Vanilla Strategy," The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 14, 2003.
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"[Our research] suggests that schools may be setting standards that they apply to all students based on what is normal for girls. ... One explanation is that the teachers holding these perceptions are primarily women who may relate much more to the experience of girls than they do to that of boys. And in the primary grades, nearly 80% of the teachers are female."
-- Dr. Sally Shaywitz, professor of pediatrics, in her article "Recognize Boys' Differences," USA Today, December 21, 2003.
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"Despite the very best efforts of the USDA, the spread of BSE [bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease] to the U.S. was and remains inevitable. For both animals and people, a global economy is linked to a global public health. West Nile virus and SARS are examples of recent outbreaks that did not respect international borders. Neither will BSE."
-- Dr. David Katz, associate clinical professor of epidemiology and public health and medicine, "Mad Cow: Where Did It Come From?" Connecticut Post, Dec. 25, 2003.
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"What occurred to me was that [six-year-old Cuban refugee] Elian Gonzalez had no autonomy, no say in his life and in a way he was just like Cuba and the Cuban people. That's how it's been for many years for Cuba. We've been pawns. For so many years we were pawns of the Soviets."
-- Carlos Eire, the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of Religious Studies and History, "A Victim of Castro's Tyranny Tells His Story," The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 26, 2003.
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"Although we have no hard evidence to prove the point, those of us who work in universities have learned from experience that the Chinese who study here are likely to return home favoring greater openness, freer exchange of ideas, and good relations between China and the West. As those educated in the United States become an increasing fraction of China's leaders, we build a firmer foundation for mutual understanding. Indeed, we would do well to send more American students to China for the same reason."
-- Richard C. Levin, University President, in his article "Let the Chinese Students Come," International Herald Tribune, Dec. 11, 2003.
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"[W]ithin a decade all our car insurance companies will be offering us discounts if we will commit to Acme-like contracts -- if we agree not to speed."
-- Ian Ayres, the William K. Townsend Professor of Law, referring to a lawsuit sparked when Acme Rent-a-Car fined customers for speeding by tracking them with global positioning systems, "This Car Can Talk. What It Says May Cause Concern," The New York Times, Dec. 29, 2003.
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"Employers have a critical role to play in making it easier for more parents to balance work and home, to be sure. But so do the husbands or partners with whom women live."
-- Emily Bazelon, clinical visiting lecturer in law, and Judith Resnik, the Arthur Liman Professor of Law, in their article "At Home and Work, Still a Man's World," Los Angeles Times, Jan. 2, 2004.
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"If you lined up all the diets in the world in a multimillion-dollar clinical trial and fired the starting gun, and lots of people started each of these diets, my prediction is early on there might be some separation, with some of these diets showing bigger weight loss than others. But in the long term, they'd probably work the same overall."
-- Kelly Brownell, director of the Center for Eating and Weight Disorders, "Round and Round We Go," Los Angeles Times, Dec. 29, 2003.
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"The best evidence for continuing confidence in the integrity of U.S. securities markets comes from foreign investors, who would be among the first to flee if they feared rampant corporate fraud and inadequate regulation."
-- Robert J. Shiller, the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics, in his article "How Corrupt Are U.S. Capital Markets?" The Korea Herald, Jan. 3, 2004.
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"[Books on stylish living] confer a distinctive kind of status and demonstrate a high cultivation in design, style and the British nobility. The fact that only the wealthy can buy them reinforces them even more as pure status symbols."
-- Kathryn Dudley, professor of anthropology and American studies, "Books To Tell the World About You: If You Want To Get Ahead Buy a Library -- or at Least Something Smart for the Coffee Table," Financial Times (London), Dec. 20, 2003.
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"Smiling, jut-jawed and genial; crafty, brash and inspirational; Dr. New Deal and Dr. Win the War -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt remains as rich a subject for historians as he was to writers in his time. ... To be sure, in his day plenty of unregenerate capitalists hated Roosevelt for expanding the federal government's powers over business as never before. But today, his committed critics are about as numerous as foes of Abraham Lincoln or George Washington."
-- David Greenberg, lecturer in political science and history, in his review of Conrad Black's new biography of Roosevelt, "The Man Who Saved Capitalism," Newsday, Jan. 4, 2004.
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"To date, astonishingly, there have been virtually no city or town elections anywhere in Iraq. Apparently, U.S. policy calls for implementing national self-government first and worrying about local self-government later. The order of priority should be exactly the opposite. ... Local democracy is the best instruction for national democracy."
-- Amy Chua, professor of law, and Jed Rubenfeld, the Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law, in their article "Never Underestimate the Power of Ethnicity in Iraq," The Washington Post, Jan. 4, 2004.
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"Research to understand bipolar disease in youth is especially important because of their high risk for suicide."
-- Dr. Hilary Blumberg, assistant professor of psychiatry, "Bipolar Brain," The Hartford Courant, Dec. 23, 2003.
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"Whether the China bashers like it or not, the American and Chinese economies have become interdependent to no minor extent -- which is, actually, good news for global peace and prosperity. This fact seems to be well grasped in Beijing, at least sufficiently so for China to avoid a foolish and self-destructive trade or financial misstep. But on this side of the Pacific that fact needs to be better understood."
-- Ernesto Zedillo, director of the Center for the Study of Globalization, in his article "Self-Inflicted China Syndrome," Forbes, Dec. 22, 2003.
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"The food pyramid, the [USDA] dietary guidelines, the World Health Organization, the Surgeon General's obesity report, all tell people they should be consuming less sugar in their food, particularly the added sugars, like the high-fructose corn syrups. Yet when you come to the label, there's no real help there."
-- Jerold Mande, lecturer in pediatrics, about new recommended guidelines for food labels, "Report Urges Food Label Revamp," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Dec. 12, 2003.
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"[It's amazing] that in all the 30 million-square-kilometer area of Africa, there is just one site to represent a whole of 10 million years of evolution. There just have to be more sites out there."
-- Andrew Hill, chair of the Department of Anthropology, about a dig in Chilga, Ethiopia, that has yielded six new species of 32-million-year-old fossils, "New Creatures Found in Ethiopian Fossil Deposits; Scientists Get Clues to Evolution of Mammals," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Dec. 8, 2003.
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"Private insurers and drug companies don't want true competition: They want a playing field tilted in their favor. ... Republicans, eager to win campaign funds and hostile to the very idea of Medicare, essentially gave the medical industry what it wanted. But what they produced has about the same intellectual purity as an ad jingle."
-- Jacob S. Hacker, the Peter Strauss Family Assistant Professor of Political Science, and Theodore R. Marmor, professor at the School of Management and adjunct professor at the Law School, in their article "Poison Pill; Why the New Reform Bill Will Make Medicare's Problems Bigger -- And Even Harder To Fix," The Boston Globe, Dec. 7, 2003.
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