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"All novels are doomed to be misunderstood."
-- Katharine Weber, creative writer in the Department of English, "Turning 'Little Women' Into Naughty Women," The Hartford Courant, Sept. 9, 2003.
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"As the U.S. imports far more in goods and services than it exports, it needs someone to step in and lend it the money to keep spending on imported cars, Italian marble for monster houses, and lots of the stuff you see on the shelves at Sears or Wal-Mart. As it turns out, two of the biggest bankers for the world's unipolar superpower are a couple of middle military powers, Japan and China."
-- Philip Segal, Knight Fellow at the Law School, noting that the two nations have bought U.S. Treasury debt in "large amounts," "World's Hyper-Borrower Need Not Fear Its Creditors," USA Today, Sept. 4, 2003.
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"Mexicans seem to believe that they could be living at close to U.S. living standards in another few decades. But they find it equally likely that their living standards might drop even lower than they are today. This mixture of optimism and fear applies to everyone, Mexican businesses and Mexican families alike."
-- Robert J. Shiller, the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics, in his article "Mexico's Labyrinth of Uncertainty," The Korea Herald, Sept. 5, 2003.
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"Most people have busy, harried lives, and don't have particularly good taste."
-- Ravi Dhar, professor at the Yale School of Management, about the trend toward "democratization of style and fashion," "One Nation, Under Ikea," The Mercury News, Sept. 7, 2003.
§ "If we give [children] all this programmed stuff, are they going to come out of the box and think like great inventors. We're depriving them of the 'what ifs'."
-- Dorothy Singer, senior research scientist in psychology, "Playing Ye Olde Way," Newsweek, Sept. 8, 2003.
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"Most of the mills that process timber have converted their processing facilities from old growth to second-growth diameter logs, so there are not many mills anymore that can even process the huge-diameter, true old growth Redwoods or Douglas Firs."
-- Gary Dunning, executive director of the Global Institute for Sustainable Forestry at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, "Boise's Plan To End Old Growth Harvesting: Trend-Setting or Too-Little, Too-Late?" SocialFunds.com, Sept. 4, 2003.
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"I don't believe in national philosophy. Philosophy is international."
-- Seyla Benhabib, the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science, speaking at the World Congress of Philosophy, "A Byzantine World Congress of Philosophy," The Chronicle of Higher Education, Sept. 5, 2003.
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"Big systems with catastrophic potential and the ability to cause widespread damage still usually fail in prosaic ways. The only thing that's different is it happens on a much bigger scale than it's ever happened before."
-- Charles Perrow, professor emeritus of sociology, about the vulnerability of the power grid, the Internet and air-traffic control systems, "The Thrill of Danger, the Agony of Disaster," The New York Times, Aug. 31, 2003.
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"For decades to come, the United States will be forced to continue to intervene militarily in many countries. ... Yet our institutional capability to handle the challenges the 'day after' U.S. troops achieve military dominance in a country remains ad hoc, underfunded and understaffed."
-- Jeffrey E. Garten, dean of the Yale School of Management, in his article "Urgent: The U.S. Needs to Create a Colonial Service," Foreign Policy, Sept./Oct. 2003.
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"Change in academics comes slowly. Liberal arts institutions have historically been extremely careful about how the study and practice of professions has been incorporated in curriculum. Theater is a great example of that."
-- James Bundy, dean of the School of Drama, "Time Past for Colleges To Take Games as Seriously as Fans," The New York Times, Aug. 31, 2003.
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"There is automatically this conflicted situation among people in charge of caring for these individuals in life and all of a sudden turning the dialogue to an organ donation discussion. ... [S]eparating these two events is an important thing to do in helping family members come to the decision of yes when asked."
-- Dr. Marc I. Lorber, professor of surgery and pathology, "How Diplomacy in Handling Death Can Save Lives," The New York Times, Aug. 19, 2003.
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