Yale Bulletin and Calendar

February 27, 2004|Volume 32, Number 20

In the News
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"The violence and indecency [on television] are going to continue as long as shows like 'The Sopranos' and 'Sex and the City' get high ratings. Nothing will change until people turn their TVs off, and people "

-- Dorothy Singer, co-director of the Television & Consultation Center, "TV Networks Seek New Ways To Keep Themselves Covered," The Boston Globe, Feb. 4, 2004.

"Before Sept. 11, many potential nuclear powers in the South were indeed hesitating. If they made a bomb, they risked U.S. (and often European) wrath. It was expensive. It wasn't all that easy to do. But now? Any country in the South that has looked at the second Iraq war can draw from it one simple lesson. Iraq was invaded not because it had weapons of mass destruction but because it didn't."

-- Immanuel Wallerstein, senior research scientist in sociology, in his article "'Soft Multilateralism': You Can't Go Home Again; Foreign Policy," The Nation, Feb. 2, 2004.

"The United States will, of course, always support the troops. But many are saying domestic needs -- in health care, in Social Security, in all the categories now being cut to make room for war, anti-terrorism, nation-building and irresponsibly large tax cuts -- should no longer have to take a back seat to unruly and ungrateful foreigners."

-- Gustav Ranis, the Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics, in his article "Still Waiting for the President's 'Humble' Foreign Policy," The Hartford Courant, Feb. 12, 2004.

"Start with identifying and solving a problem in your own lives. Take a little thing and apply it somewhere else. You don't have to invent things. ... Don't just take things one way and never imagine another."

-- Barry Nalebuff, the Milton Steinbach Professor of Management, "Boxed In? Then Think 'Why Not?'" The Mercury News, Feb. 15, 2004.

"As collective memory fades, commercialization reduces civic meaning to parody. Presidents Day is realized most vividly at the nation's shopping malls and ski slopes. Holidays have been privatized into vacations, with only a fleeting glance at the civic achievement that now serves as an excuse for a three-day weekend."

-- Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, and James S. Fishkin in their article "A Holiday Fit for a President," Los Angeles Times, Feb. 16, 2004.

"[W]hen we examine medical practice closely, we almost invariably find marked discrepancy between prevailing guidelines and what is actually done."

-- Dr. David L. Katz, associate clinical professor of epidemiology and public health and medicine, "ER Responses to Allergic Reactions Questioned," Connecticut Post, Feb. 10, 2004.

"There is a stigma attached to seeking mental health, so many people don't seek care. Also, some of the symptoms of eating disorders -- trying to restrain food intake, dissatisfaction with body shape and weight -- are so normal among women in our culture that many people may not feel that they have a disorder."

-- Marlene B. Schwartz, associate research scientist and lecturer in psychology, "Eating Disorders: Study Suggests Women Aren't Receiving Proper Treatment," Health & Medicine Week, Feb. 16, 2004.

"Imagine what [dyslexia] does to a child's sense of him or herself. Children who aren't given effective instruction until third grade carry this burden of being behind by 3,000 words."

-- Dr. Sally Shaywitz, professor of pediatrics, "New Hope for Dyslexic Students," The Boston Globe, Feb. 8, 2004.

"Many corrupt industrial chiefs have used philanthropy as a cleansing tool and a personal vanity. Some firms squeeze out $50 of PR for every nickel of philanthropy."

-- Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, associate dean of the School of Management, "Charity Challenge Raises Issue of Philanthropy," USA Today, Feb. 13, 2004.

"[I]n many ways marriage has stood for precisely the kind of conventional, orthodox family arrangements which for years lesbian and gay identity has been premised against. And I think when we see the movement towards marriage in the community today, that movement is primarily towards the legal benefits of marriage, not towards a sort of participation in its broader sort of cultural meanings. In fact, on the contrary. It's my firm belief that the advent of gay marriage will fundamentally reinvigorate and redefine what is increasingly an outmoded and dying institution."

-- Jonathan Katz, executive coordinator of the Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies and adjunct associate professor of women's and gender studies and of the history of art, "Gay Marriage Debate Within the Gay Community," "Talk of the Nation," National Public Radio, Feb. 16, 2004.

"Russia is unique among resource-rich countries in the developing world, since it has privatized its oil sector. ... The existence of the private oil companies is responsible for spurring economic reform in Russia. Over the last few years, they have pushed for stable property rights, transparency, corporate governance and a new tax regime -- in order to maximize their profits, attract foreign partners and secure their investments over the long term."

-- Jones Luong, assistant professor of political science, and Erica Weinthal, in their article "Luong and Weinthal: Russia's Private Oil Companies Headed Down a Slippery Slope," The Dallas Morning News, Feb. 15, 2004.

"I don't mean to demean the importance of a possible impeachment, but is it more important than education? Urban policy? Regional growth? Tax policy? The budget? Energy policy? ... Impeachment is a special event and everyone is watching. Other issues have not received the same degree of attention in the past and will not in the future. Life changes when the cameras are turned off and the legislature's actions are relegated to the back pages."

-- Robert Solomon, clinical professor and director of legal services at the Law School, about state legislators' focus on the possible impeachment of Connecticut Governor John Rowland in his article "It's Hard To Be a State Legislator," Connecticut Law Tribune, Feb. 16, 2004.

"Even if Massachusetts goes ahead with a controversial state constitutional amendment that would end same-sex marriage there in 2006 or later, what will happen to couples who marry in the meantime? Whatever one thinks about the morality of the underlying issue, it hardly seems possible to announce retroactively that children born to or adopted by the couple have overnight become legally illegitimate. But then, that result is no worse than having children's status change back and forth between legitimate and illegitimate as their families drive across the country. And yet that is the direction in which we seem to be headed. ..."

-- Lea Brilmayer, the Howard M. Holtzmann Professor of International Law, in her article "Same-Sex Marriage Raises Legal Questions," The Washington Post, Feb. 15, 2004.

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