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"[Small acts of rebellion are] an integral part of how people cope. All societies have them, but they're successful only to the extent that they avoid open confrontation."
-- James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political
Science and professor of anthropology,
"No Need to Stew: A Few Tips To Cope
With Life's Annoyances,"
The New York Times, March 15, 2005.
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"In some ways, colonialism was very good for Islam, as Muslim scholars themselves are beginning to admit."
-- Lamin Sanneh, the D. Willis James Professor of World Christianity, "West Urged To Get Over Guilt Complex About Islamic World," Edmonton Journal (Alberta), March 12, 2005.
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"Statisticians love this. A wealth of team statistics, individual player statistics, polls, ratings, and gambling odds are all available online and studied extensively by academics and hoopsters alike. ... If all teams [in the NCAA 'March Madness' tournament] were equal, each would have 1 chance in 64 (or about 1.5 percent) of winning the tournament. Nobody believes this, but it helps to keep things in perspective."
-- John W. Emerson, assistant professor of statistics, in his article "On The Court, in the Office: A Game of Statistics," The Hartford Courant, March 17, 2005.
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"[I]t is unrealistic to expect [nations donating foreign aid to developing nations] simply to send a check and hope for the best. What would make much better sense for all, appealing to Marshall Plan experience, would be for the donors to encourage self-conditionality, with the developing countries taking the initiative, deciding what policy changes they do want, and then approaching the donors, who would act more in the capacity of bankers rather than force-feeding assistance as is the current, counter-productive mode."
-- Gustav Ranis, the Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics, in his letter to the editor "Recipients of Aid Should Establish Accountable Terms," Financial Times (London), March 7, 2005.
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"I think there was a mood change [among investors in the U.S. stock market]. It's not fun anymore. It was fun in the 1990s, and everyone was talking about it."
-- Robert J. Shiller, the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics, "Nasdaq Bubble Floated Away, Others Stayed," The Wall Street Journal, March 7, 2005.
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"It would be as wrong-headed to try to take [apocalyptic passages in the Bible] literally as to take a dream literally."
-- John Collins, the Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation, "Curious About End Times? Yale Prof To Weigh In," Austin American-Statesman (Texas), March 6, 2005.
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"In the gilded age of JP Morgan and John D. Rockefeller, big companies were seen as having unchecked power. This led to a dramatic increase in government regulation. Unless the new corporate Goliaths are smart about redefining their own role in global society, that could easily happen again."
-- Jeffrey Garten, dean of the School of Management, in his article "Why Goliaths Need to be Careful," Financial Times (London), Feb. 28, 2005.
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"If physicists can look for a unified theory, why can't biologists? Sure, [finding a single treatment for all autoimmune diseases] is complicated, but there are general principles at work. These are not random events."
-- Ira Mellman, Sterling Professor of Cell Biology and professor of immunobiology, "One Vaccine, Many Diseases," Hartford Courant, March 1, 2005.
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"Bankruptcy gives you the chance to clean up your contractual commitments but it can't create an ongoing profitable business if you don't know what you want to do."
-- Michael Levine, adjunct professor of law, "Chapter 11: A Failsafe for Bad Managers?" Financial Times (London), March 11, 2005.
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"There is a tendency for the [vitamin] supplement industry to sell what people will buy. They base sales decisions more on market potential than health benefits."
-- Kelly Brownell, chair of the Department of Psychology and director of the Center for Eating and Weight Disorders, "Can't Eat Your Wheaties? Try Vitamin Popular Cereal, Along With Total, Inspires Supplements," USA Today, March 3, 2005.
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"The issue [of church-sanctioned gay marriages] is becoming intensive and explosive precisely because more and more people are moving toward welcoming and honoring persons who are gay and lesbian, and contending that it is appropriate for them to marry. If this were not a rising movement, people wouldn't be worrying about it. It indicates change is under way."
-- Thomas Ogletree, professor of theological ethics, "A Debate Filled With Faith," The New York Times, March 6, 2005.
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"It would indeed be a major calamity if India's efforts to contain the AIDS epidemic and prolong the lives of the millions who are HIV positive is hampered, if not crippled, because Indian generics are pushed out of the markets by the newly granted patents on branded products."
-- Amy Kapczynski, postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health and at the Law School, T.N. Srinivasan, the Samuel C. Park Jr. Professor of Economics, and Frederick M. Abbott, about changes to India's patent laws that might drive out cheaper generic substitutes for more expensive name-brand drugs, in their article "The Draft Patent Law," The Hindu (India), March 12, 2005.
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"[I]t only stands to reason the most developmental period is going to be childhood. And increasingly we program children's lives so they are very structured and organized. We have reduced the amount of play time, which was a very common way historically in which children accessed nature. And we also worry about children more than ever before. We don't allow children -- or ourselves -- to be as spontaneous. We're worried if they just go out to the park on their own, if that might be bad."
-- Stephen R. Kellert, the Tweedy/Ordway Professor of Social Ecology, "The Natural Human; Yale Professor Espouses Belief that, Because of an Innate Connection, People Work Better, Feel Better when Their Building Environment Incorporates Nature," The Hartford Courant, March 12, 2005.
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"We're interested in documenting the development of literature in America and, in this case, gay and lesbian writing in particular. We can learn a great deal from the writing of people who may be very, very good but didn't hit the national market."
-- Patricia Willis, curator of American literature at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, about the library's acquisition last fall of Robert Giard's photographs of gay and lesbian writers, "Portraits of the Gay Literary Life," The New York Times, March 13, 2005.
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