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March 18, 2005|Volume 33, Number 22


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"In 15 years, there may be no clear distinction between reporters on the one hand and bloggers on the other. It won't just be an either-or, where you have a reporter for The Chicago Tribune on the one hand, and a guy sitting in his pajamas drinking beer on the other."

-- Jack Balkin, the Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, "At a Suit's Core: Are Bloggers Reporters, Too?" The New York Times, March 7, 2005.

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"I am less confident than I have been in the last decade that there is the political will in Europe to steer Turkey's integration [into the European Union] along the proper channels. European political culture has taken a turn to the right -- German and British social democracy notwithstanding -- and I see lack of leadership to deal honestly and imaginatively with cultural and religious difference. European multiculturalism is a paper tiger."

-- Seyla Benhabib, the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science, commenting, in this instance, in her article "Truly Diverse?: Why Turkey Is Already Fit To Join Europe," Global Agenda, Jan. 2005.

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"In [the W.B. Yeats poem] 'Lake Isle,' as in 'Million Dollar Baby,' the dream of escape finally slams against the hard facts of real life. The dream can survive, as Yeats puts it, only 'in the deep heart's core.' In the movie, the dream is mined by [Clint] Eastwood's character when he labors to translate the poem from the Gaelic for Maggie. It feels as if he's extracting a gift of hope for her out of the bedrock of Ireland's nearly forgotten language. There's just one hitch: Yeats didn't write his poems in Irish. He didn't even know the language well enough to read it."

-- Wes Davis, assistant professor of English, in his article "Fighting Words," The New York Times, Feb. 26, 2005.

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"These [government-funded biodefense] projects obviously take money away from basic research in the United States. There's no question that microbiology has suffered."

-- Sidney Altman, Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, criticizing the government for giving tens of millions of dollars to research on pathogens that might be used in bioterrorist attacks, rather than on those that cause public health problems, "U.S. Germ-Research Policy Is Protested by 758 Scientists," The New York Times, March 1, 2005.

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"I am always attracted to the simpler scale systems whether it's the modes of the Indonesian gamelans or the psalmody traditions of New England. I guess I feel that less is more. A simple scale has a lot of authenticity."

-- Ingram Marshall, lecturer at the School of Music, on his work as composer, "Weaving Sounds Into Song," The New York Times, March 6, 2005.

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"We've all agreed there needs to be some mechanism to control [arm injuries in Little League pitchers]. Volume of pitches is a critical factor. Parents and coaches are actually creating the chance for injury that could eliminate the possibility of that kid reaching his potential, or even his ability to pitch. It's the antithesis of what they want. We are seeing an epidemic of a very, very serious injury. It's an epidemic that can be easily prevented if people just backed off a little bit."

-- Dr. Barry Goldberg, chief of athletic medicine at University Health Services, "Young Pitchers Throw Too Hard, Too Often Proliferation of Shoulder and Elbow Surgeries; Worries Even Those Who Invented the Procedure," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 6, 2005.

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"I am unaware of any evidence that following periods of high aggregate short interest, the market goes up. Nor am I aware of evidence that after periods of low aggregate short interest the market goes down."

-- Owen Lamont, professor at the School of Management, "Meaning of NYSE's High Short Interest," AFX.COM, Feb. 25, 2005.

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"It is a regrettable sign of the times that there are almost no limits to the pit-bull instincts in American political lobbying these days."

-- Ted Marmor, professor at the School of Management, professor of political science and adjunct professor at the Law School, "Campaign-Like Attacks Turn Up Volume on Social Security Debate," Los Angeles Times, Feb. 26, 2005.

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"US Air takes someone who was making $20 an hour and pays them $12 an hour, which might even be more than JetBlue, and that person remembers, being human, that they used to make $20. ... It's one of the challenges of the legacy network airlines. They start with a labor force that has grown used to and felt entitled to work on terms that customers simply won't support."

-- Michael E. Levine, adjunct professor of law, "Airline Workers Chafe at Cuts to Pay and Benefits, Struggle to Adjust Long-Held Expectations," Associated Press, Feb. 26, 2005.

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"Women are basically told in this social order they have at least two jobs -- household care and work care. If my 80 hours [that can be devoted to a career] includes 40 in the household, I have 40 left for other work."

-- Judith Resnik, the Arthur Liman Professor of Law, "Women Find Tenure Elusive; Despite Other Gains, A Gender Gap Persists," Hartford Courant, Feb. 27, 2005.

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"Evidence suggests that the only way to have a rapid impact on deaths from tobacco is to step up cessation efforts and combine them with smoke free policies. However, the language of the FCTC [the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control treaty] is relatively weak on these issues."

-- Dr. Derek Yach, professor of epidemiology and public health, "Global Anti-Tobacco Treaty Takes Effect," Associated Press, Feb. 28, 2005.

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"I don't like the word, but we're a miscegenated culture. There is nothing really pure about Americans. You scratch us, and we bleed many colors and many ethnicities. Our culture is about hybridity, bringing formerly separate things together."

-- John Mack Faragher, the Arthur Unobskey Professor of American History, director of the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders and professor of American studies, "Interview: America's Forgotten Atrocity," Salon.com, March 1, 2005.


T H I SW E E K ' SS T O R I E S

Financial burden for lower-income families eliminated

Professor created 'Science Saturdays' series to fuel flame . . .

Holloway named next master of Calhoun College

Campus-wide survey begins on March 21

David Leffell is appointed deputy dean for clinical affairs

Music school dean will leave to assume SMU post

Bloom to be honored with Hans Christian Andersen Award

Experiment demonstrates that monkeys have the ability to reason . . .

Researchers identify gene for age-related macular degeneration

Online auction will benefit Dwight Hall

Passion and ambition take center stage in 'Miss Julie'

School of Drama will present Ibsen's tragedy 'Hedda Gabler'

Internationally renowned architect Frank Gehry will visit the campus . . .

'The Physical Print' traces evolution of photographic process

Noted child psychiatrist will deliver inaugural Albert J. Solnit Lecture

Celebrated poet and renowned novelist are next Schlesinger Visiting Writers

In Memoriam: Jacques Guicharnaud, French theater scholar . . .

Nelson to head playwriting department

Yale editor Nayan Chanda earns Shorenstein Award for Journalism

Kiger will join artistic staff at Yale Rep

Library conference will explore preservation of global collections

Dr. James Comer to discuss future of public education

Bookbags and 'Schooliosis'


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