Word: patterson
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...your livelihood depended on a talking gorilla, you'd stretch the data too. So when an America Online chat with Koko, billed as a gorilla who can communicate with humans through sign language, quickly devolved into a Dada exercise, Dr. Francine Patterson, Koko's sign-language teacher, used some pretty impressive logic to expand her simian friend's limited communication skills. Here's a partial transcript...
...Patterson: We had earlier discussion about colors today...
...Patterson: Nipple rhymes with people, she doesn't sign people per se, she was trying to do a "sounds like...
...headache, the Paula Jones case. Jones brought suit after she recognized herself as the woman named "Paula" in the 1994 Spectator story about Clinton's alleged caperings while Arkansas Governor. Last week the Chicago Sun-Times reported that two of the troopers who were sources for that article, Larry Patterson and Roger Perry, were paid by Peter W. Smith, a Chicago investment banker and large G.O.P. contributor, who spent about $80,000 over 18 months to get tales about Clinton's personal life into print. Former Spectator writer David Brock, who says he accepted $5,000 from Smith...
...others to innovate and compete in the marketplace. If IBM had used tactics similar to those of Gates' Microsoft in negotiating the design of DOS with Gates & Co., the history of the personal-computer industry would have been significantly different. Gates needs to be reminded of this. ROGER J. PATTERSON Muscat, Oman...