Word: wieners
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...cast of the scandal in Portland, Ore., has a certain ring to it: Sam Adams. Bob Ball. Beau Breedlove and his dog Lolita ... "Everyone has porn names!" says Mark Wiener with a laugh. "Until yesterday, it had never occurred to me that the worst offending name was mine." Wiener (pronounced Wee-ner) is one of Oregon's most influential political consultants and a former - and now disheartened - campaign adviser to the protagonist in this political soap opera. That would be Sam Adams, the new mayor of Portland and the first openly gay man to lead a major American city. Then...
...Kennedy School also plans to temporarily postpone a few of its current projects, such as the renovation of the Wiener Auditorium...
...technically they've always had a duty to step in the way of anything that threatened their company's value. In fact, companies long ago thought they had figured out a way to shepherd individual interest. "Everyone thought risk-based compensation was equity in the firm," says James Wiener, head of the finance and risk practice at the consultancy Oliver Wyman. Employees at Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns owned some 30% of their companies. At the end of the day, that didn't matter. Because altering a foundational element of an industry is difficult...
...critique starts to look silly. Who has time to worry about little slip-ups when there’s so much murder to be done?So I mostly don’t care that Friday’s opening performance on the Loeb Mainstage, directed by Jesse A. Wiener ’08 and Jason M. Lazarcheck ’08, teetered on the brink of collapse for nearly three hours. When the production, which will run through May 3, managed to harness the tremendous energy of Sondheim’s devilishly tricky score rather than struggle against...
...Just trying to get a whole group of people on the same page musically is very difficult, especially music like this, in which there are songs where five or six people are singing totally different things at the same time,” music director Jesse A. Wiener ’08 says. In the end, “Sweeney Todd” seeks to be funny and entertaining despite its dark and depressing material. As Flynn describes the show’s appeal, “It’s cannibalism, but it’s happy cannibalism...