Word: goulds
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...found a home in Cambridge. Colleagues have been helpful and enthusiastic in helping start what is essentially a new program. Already Gates has brought in two new faces to the board of directors of the DuBois Institute: Porter University Professor Helen Vendler and Agassiz Professor of Zoology Stephen Jay Gould...
...exchange for a piece of future royalties. A New York City company, Refac Technology, has sued more than 2,000 companies, including IBM, Kodak, Sears, Exxon and Sony, on behalf of small inventors. Refac raised more than $3 million from investors to finance a series of suits by Gordon Gould, inventor of the laser, against the likes of AT&T and Xerox. The companies settled. Refac's revenues last year, mainly from royalty fees, exceeded $10 million. The courts last year limited such investor-funded suits by restricting third parties from buying an interest in a patent solely...
...GOULD CONDUCTS WAGNER (Sony Classical). Shortly before his death in 1982, the legendary pianist Glenn Gould decided to experiment with the idea of becoming a conductor. Since he had abdicated the concert stage 18 years earlier, he & quietly rented a hall and hired some members of the Toronto Symphony. Though most famous for his electric keyboard interpretations of Bach, Gould chose for his orchestral debut Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, which he took at a glacially languorous tempo. When it was over, he blurted onto the tape an accurate verdict: "Gorgeous! Magnificent! Heartbreaking!" Along with that performance, the newly released album...
...Kennedy School frequently packs its forum room with confrontations between groups with names like ORGASM and AALARM. And, to the delight of students, science gurus Stephen J. Gould and Edward O. Wilson have been academically slugging it out for as long as anyone can remember...
Before the students' suit is even heard by a judge and jury, the court must recognize that the students have been harmed by the alleged discriminatory hiring practices. It is possible that Harvard will file for a motion to dismiss the case, although both Gould and Bonifaz agree that precedent does exist for hearing similar suits...