Word: krishnas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sunflower ("She's a sunflower, she's my sunflower, and I . . .") cost Herman $250,000 when he indignantly settled out of court in 1966. Ten years later, former Beatle George Harrison was nicked for $400,000 when a judge ruled that the 1970 number My Sweet Lord ("Hare Krishna") closely resembled the Chiffons' 1963 single He's So Fine ("Doo lang, doo lang, doo lang"). And in 1983 a Chicago jury ruled that the Bee Gees' How Deep Is Your Love (1977) was a little too deeply influenced by a 1975 ditty called Let It End, by Ronald Selle...
Harvard's Roger Berry fought off a rally from Amin Khoury to capture the B-flight singles, 6-2, 6-7, 6-3 at the Harvard-hosted New England Championships held over the weekend at Beren Courts. And freshman Ravi Krishna Kumar recorded a 6-3, 7-6 victory over teammate John Stinebaugh in the D division singles finals...
...more serious level, two economics professors conducted their own survey of the freshman class. Assistant Professors of Economics Susan M. Collins '80 and Kala Krishna distributed detailed questionaires to freshmen with their lottery forms. Collins said they will use the results to discover" how individuals and groups plot their strategies in a competitive environment," and "how individual preferences are combined to form group preferences...
...Krishna said that the new lottery systempresents "a nice problem in game theory," whichrests on the premise that "people will maximizewhatever objective function they have...
...Suppose you knew you had a low number in thelottery, you'd be more likely to put down yourtrue choices but if you had a high number, you'd bemore likely to lie," Krishna said...