Word: goldberger
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Since the Law School ritual began several years ago, by 10 p.m. on Thursday nights there is standing room only in Harkness Commons. "I used to get here at nine and you couldn't get a seat," says second-year student Eric S. Goldberg...
Some of the exchanges' critics want to go further. They recommend that Chicago's quaint system of making deals with shouts and hand signals be replaced with automated computerized trading, as has been done in Tokyo and London. "It is time to jettison this Rube Goldberg . . . system and replace it with a sophisticated electronic system that records trades as they happen," said Massachusetts Democrat Edward J. Markey, chairman of the House subcommittee on telecommunications and finance...
...over whether four 6th century mosaics bought in Switzerland by an American art dealer had actually been stolen from Cyprus after the island was invaded by Turkish soldiers in 1974. Last week Judge James E. Noland announced his decision: the Byzantine religious works that suburban Indianapolis art dealer Peg Goldberg purchased for $1.2 million last year and tried to sell to the Getty Museum in California, are legally the property of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Cyprus and must be returned...
...subcommittee will be watching closely to see how well the new IRS commissioner, Fred Goldberg Jr., who stepped in after the abrupt resignation * of Lawrence Gibbs last March, will follow up on the allegations. "I think all of us understand that we have a big challenge ahead of us," testified Goldberg near the conclusion of the hearings. Last week's uncomfortable spotlight may have supplied the IRS with some much needed motivation. Said Edward Habecker, a former IRS official, in testimony at the hearings: "What is lacking today within the IRS is not the tools, but the desire to maintain...
Among the few modern concert performers whom even the tone-deaf have heard of, none is more intriguing than the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould -- not only because of his electrifying reinventions of Bach's Goldberg Variations, among other pieces, but also because of the strikingly eccentric artistic creation that was his life. Who could forget the singular genius who shuffled about on summer days swathed in mufflers and overcoats (because of his hypochondria), and in concerts sat himself down on a pygmy chair and proceeded to sigh, groan, sing and wave his hands about as he played? Who could resist...