In Quotes...





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     "[The] possibility of a major leadership role at Hopkins is

something I would like to explore."

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     Minnesota Academic Health Center provost and former Hopkins

School of Medicine professor William R. Brody, in the March 12

St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press, on his being identified as a

candidate for president of Hopkins.





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     "We're a country with a lively appreciation of sin, and our

eating behavior appears to be colored by it."

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     Anthropologist Sidney Mintz, in the March 10 New York Times

Magazine, on the way Americans think about and consume fat in

their diet.





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     "[Most] Cubans see another side of the revolution, the side

that has provided free education, excellent free health care, a

high degree of equality and most important, a sense of national

pride."

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     Cuba Exchange Project director Wayne Smith, in an Op-Ed

piece in the March 9 Sun, on why ordinary Cubans still support

President Fidel Castro.





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     "It's scary ... Everybody can't stop talking about it."

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     Sales clerk Judith Williams, of Culpeper, Va., in the March

14 Washington Post, on the disappearance on March 2 of School of

Medicine graduate student Alicia Showalter Reynolds near

Culpeper.





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     "A lot of people perceive that Hopkins just isn't a fun

place."

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     Alum Peter Dolkart (A&S, '95), in the March 8-14 Baltimore

Business Journal, on why he has been working to get the 

largely residential Charles Village rezoned.





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     "Lacrosse players."

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     The answer to No. 11 down in the March 8 New York Times

crossword puzzle. The clue: Noted Johns Hopkins athletes.