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"There's a tremendous amount of waste in the jury selection process. The only thing that can be said about the two sides trying to stack the deck is that hopefully they cancel each other out."
-- Peter H. Schuck, the Simeon E. Baldwin Professor of Law, "Split Verdict on Selecting Juries Quickly," The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 1, 2006.
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"We are not as concerned about racial integration as with economic integration. You used to hear about desegregating housing. Now we talk about de-concentrating poverty."
-- Robert Solomon, clinical professor of law
and director of clinical studies at the Law School,
"Civil Rights Struggle Evolves,"
New Haven Register, Feb. 5, 2006.
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"But if you did have the money, it would be smarter to invest the same amount [in the stock market] each year rather than a little bit at first and then more later. You might think that's impossible. But people invest more than they have all the time. When you buy your first house, you put down only a little and borrow the rest. But your exposure to risk is based on the full price of the house and the market performance while you own it."
-- Barry Nalebuff, the Milton Steinbach Professor of Management, "Barry Nalebuff Speaks About Using Credit To Invest in Stocks," "Marketplace," Minnesota Public Radio, Jan. 30, 2006.
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"Personally, in my heart of hearts, I think there is a benefit [to hormone therapy during menopause]. However, I'm politically incorrect if I say that. ... Three years ago, the message was, 'You're going to die if you don't stop taking this.'"
-- Dr. Mary Jane Minkin, clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology, "Rethinking Hormones, Again," The New York Times, Jan. 31, 2006.
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"We know that social support is not a straightforward [health benefit] by the time one reaches adulthood. Sometimes, especially for women, relationships can be a double-edged sword in that they bring with them a certain degree of social burden and social obligation that can actually increase stress. ... It depends on the nature of your relationships; it depends on your comfort level in social settings; it depends on your social surroundings; it depends on your social context. It depends."
-- Matthew M. Burg, associate clinical professor of medicine, on the effect of support systems on survival rates from heart attacks, "Reversal of Fate: Heart Disease Has Been a Threat to Americans for Decades. Here's How to Reverse Its Effects Naturally," Better Nutrition, Feb. 1, 2006.
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"Overturning Roe [v. Wade] and leaving the states to regulate abortion will not be the compromise that ends the debate. Rather, it will worsen it. Pro-choice and pro-life states will not enjoy an easy and untroubled coexistence, as some would like to believe. Nor will overturning Roe get the federal government, or the federal courts, out of the business of abortion jurisprudence. Instead, state regulation will make a complex legal matter even more complicated, and the divisions over abortion that much wider. If Roe is reversed, the ensuing chaos will demand a federal resolution to the abortion battle -- again."
-- William Baude, student at the Law School, in his article "States of Confusion," The New York Times, Jan. 22, 2006.
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"Shareholders need to be aware of what is happening in the company in which they have invested. It is not enough if you just buy shares of a company and sit back and relax."
-- Shyam Sunder, the James L. Frank Professor of Accounting, Economics and Finance, "India Needs Greater Shareholder Activism: Yale School Professor," Asia Pulse, Feb. 3, 2006.
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"Most of these subsequent cancers [after childhood cancer] are amenable to screening and intervention, so knowledge is power."
-- Dr. Nina S. Kadan-Lottick, assistant professor of pediatrics, "Childhood Cancer Survivors Face Adulthood Risk," Reuters, Feb. 3, 2006.
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"There have been many attempts at [offering insurance against falling real estate values] and like every innovation it takes time. But we've learned from the mistakes of others, just as the Wright brothers did. Lots of planes crashed before one actually flew. These will eventually fly and change the world."
-- Robert J. Shiller, the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics, "Insure Your House Against Price Drops: Yale's Robert Shiller Is Developing a Revolutionary Hedge," National Post (Canada), Feb. 4, 2006.
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"To see the Prophet Muhammad depicted as violent, when we know him to be the most peaceful of men -- as an American Muslim, I was very offended and hurt by those pictures. As American Muslims, we have other ways of expressing ourselves that many in the Muslim world do not have. We can write opinion articles and speak out in other ways."
-- Sohaib Sultan, associate in the Chaplain's Office, on the rioting overseas spurred by publication of a cartoon showing Muhammad wearing a turban shaped like a bomb, "Ban on Images of Muhammad Has Solemn Roots," Hartford Courant, Feb. 3, 2006.
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"Death was closer to [those in the 18th and 19th centuries] and it happened so much more frequently than now that people wanted a way to keep their loved ones close."
-- Erin E. Eisenbarth, acting assistant curator of American decorative arts and the Marcia Brady Tucker Fellow at the Yale Art Gallery, on the habit of wearing lockets containing the hair of deceased loved ones, "Bejeweled: A Glittery New Exhibit at Yale University Art Gallery Looks at Why We Love Our Adornments So Much," New Haven Register, Feb. 5, 2006.
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"[The Farmington Canal trail is] a classic project where the whole is always going to be greater than the sum of its parts. It's a great story of activism and citizen initiative."
-- Alan Plattus, professor of architecture and urbanism, "Activists Blaze Trail Through Yale; Farmington Canal Pathway Extended," Hartford Courant, Feb. 5, 2006.
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"In addition, the work of paleoanthropologists who study the conditions of our native habitat in the Stone Age suggests that our ancestors were lean not because they ate fewer calories than we do; they probably consumed more. But they burned those calories in vigorous exertion each day. The consequence of eating a high-calorie diet made up of low-calorie, nutrient-rich, natural foods was a very high intake of micronutrients. We may be adapted to a higher level of vitamin and mineral intake than is generally achieved today through diet."
-- Dr. David L. Katz, associate professor adjunct in public health practice in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, in his article "Nutrient Supplements: Who, What & Why?" New Haven Register, Feb. 5, 2006.
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''Why is there so much opposition to reform [of Connecticut's probate courts]? It's the few against the many: A handful of people with lucrative vested interests imposing what amounts to a tax on decedents' estates and their beneficiaries. These judges are lavishly overpaid in cash compensation and then lavishly overpaid in perks, obtaining Cadillac-level health insurance for a part-time job of a few hours a week.''
-- John H. Langbein, Sterling Professor of Law and Legal History, "Judges and Lawyers Debate Probate System," The New York Times, Feb. 5, 2006.
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"America is full of brilliant jurists publicly proclaiming the need for a radical break with the dark age of 20th-century law. ... To build a new constitutionalism for the 21st century, originalists call on America to rediscover the true intentions of its 18th-century Founders, which magically coincide with their own vision of the future: a world in which the president wields unchecked powers as commander-in-chief while Congress cannot legislate to protect non-market values; a place where religion is free to occupy the public square while rights to privacy are radically restricted."
-- Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, in his article "The Stealth Revolution, Continued," London Review of Books, Jan. 27, 2006.
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"It's like Shakespeare or Greek tragedy or the Bible. It's just such a predictable script.''
-- Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld, associate dean and the Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management at the School of Management, on the history in business of difficult transitions of leaderships, "A Short History of Unpassed Torches," BusinessWeek, Feb. 6, 2006.
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"Those of us who aspire to educate the next generation of leaders for our country recognize that they need to be informed about the entire world. The world has become so interconnected that research at major universities is increasingly global in its dimensions."
-- Linda Koch Lorimer, Vice President and Secretary of the University, "Colorado Universities Extend Global Reach," Denver Post, Feb. 7, 2006.
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"Consumers of genetic genealogy testing receive their results at home in the mail. So what happens when, standing in their kitchens at the end of a workday, they open the envelope to find shocking results that may fundamentally alter their self-conceptions? Some recent studies based on Y chromosome analysis have revealed that up to a third of black men have white paternal ancestry. Most people, and especially African Americans, understand (thanks in part to Alex Haley) that these findings reflect the historical collision of power, race, commerce and sexuality that characterized slavery. But it's another thing to be confronted with this reality by a certificate of ancestry or a diagram of your racial composite received in the mail."
-- Alondra Nelson, assistant professor of sociology and of African American studies, in her article "Beyond 'Roots,'" Boston Globe, Feb. 10, 2006.
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"These questions [over Congress' right to determine the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court] have a new saliency but are as old as the United States. They are the product of debate by the Constitution's framers, who decided that some kind of national court system was needed but had different views on how much of a system to create. ... While the Constitution gives the Supreme Court the role of being a court of first instance when cases affect 'Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which the State shall be a party,' Article III notes that the Supreme Court's appellate jurisdiction is subject to 'such Exceptions and under such Regulations, as the Congress shall make.'"
-- Judith Resnik, the Arthur Liman Professor of Law, in her article "Opening the Door; Court Stripping: Unconscionable and Unconstitutional?" Slate.com, Feb. 1, 2006.
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