Word: wasserstein
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DIED. WENDY WASSERSTEIN, 55, witty, bittersweet playwright; of lymphoma; in New York City. As one of five siblings in a brainy, high-achieving family, she looked at pop culture and asked, "Where are the girls?" In plays like Uncommon Women and Others and the Pulitzer-prizewinning The Heidi Chronicles, she provided the answer with textured portraits of smart, sometimes self-doubting feminists struggling in the wake of the 1960s with competing urges for independence and intimacy. It was familiar ground for the Tony winner who, resisting pleas from her parents, remained steadfastly single. She gave birth at 48 and chronicled...
Clark said that he likes Wasserstein and considers him a “really smart guy,” but added that he also has high opinions of Richard D. Parsons and Jeffrey L. Bewkes, the CEO and president of Time Warner...
Clark’s relationships to the Lazard management, in particular to Bruce J. Wasserstein, Lazard’s chief executive, have also come under fire from some corporate governance experts. In addition to Lazard, Clark has also sat on the board of other Wasserstein-controlled companies: cosmetics maker Maybelline, auto supplies manufacturer Collins & Aikman, and publishing company American Lawyer Media Holdings...
...Wasserstein, a graduate of both HLS and Harvard Business School, has been a major benefactor of HLS—he was one of 11 alumni who gave $5.1 million in Clark’s honor when he stepped down from the HLS deanship in 2003 and the Wasserstein family has endowed both a professorship and public interest law fellowship at the law school...
...Livedoor had that brilliant idea, it?s possible that other companies might have had similar thoughts.? For now, however, most analysts TIME contacted contend that Japan?s stock market, its economy, and the financial reporting controls are fundamentally strong. In fact, Peter Tasker, an economist at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein in Tokyo, maintains that the ?Livedoor Shock? could be seen as a long-overdue correction to the speculative froth that powered the Japanese stock market to a 40% increase last year. With additional reporting by Ilya Garger/Hong Kong and Toko Sekiguchi/Tokyo