Word: comer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Patent disputes are erupting over online auctions just as they emerge as a killer app for sites such as Ebay and Onsale. The latest conflict pits comer Priceline.com against a Virginia inventor who claims he got to the patent office a year and a half earlier. MORE...
...Best Actor in a Supporting Role" goes to both veteran Fenton and new-comer Lee Poulis '02 as Don Alhambra, the Grand Inquisitor. Fenton carries off the part of the enterprising, officious windbag with the perfect amount of dull pomposity and cornball silliness and is matched by Kristin Brouwer in the part of the saucy but snotty, Duchess. Poulis mixes equal parts stodgy bureaucrat, fiendish Inquisitor and lecherous old man to take the typical Gilbert and Sullivan "uptight official" role to new, uproariously deadpan heights...
TIME: You work with some younger performers on this album. As a veteran, did you have any words of wisdom for, say, an up-and-comer like Lauryn Hill...
...Comer said he concluded that the quality of interaction at home and within the community is often the basis for academic success. His conclusion has influenced much of his work since...
...background led Comer to wonder why he and his siblings had achieved the educational success that eluded many of their peers in school...