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...That brought both him and Ben & Jerry's a lot of useful visibility. Ben & Jerry's has long favored publicity stunts over traditional advertising. Not that choosing Holland was a publicity stunt--but the manner in which he was hired clearly was. The company staged an essay contest called "Yo! I want to be CEO." It attracted 22,000 applicants and was widely covered in the media. Holland did not enter. He was found through a blue-chip search firm...
...kicker...foreign, uh, si, yo es de Mexico. Me yammo, uh, Erico Zendejas...
...birthdays, vacations. Those of us familiar with this way of life jump at the opportunity to use these occasions as excuses to go crazy--to hell with frozen yogurt, I'm getting ice cream. It is at that point when you realize your efforts to convince yourself that fro yo is really good were unsuccessful. I mean, it's all relative...
...week's end the Stratosphere staff--some of them designated in corporate lingo as redog ("Roving Entertainers Delighting Our Guests")--was negotiating the cable-strewn floors. In Roxy's Diner, a '50s-style eatery, punk and geek waiters were studiously spinning yo-yos and polishing their patois ("neat," "ugly stick," "chick" and the immortal "your mother"). Says the Stratosphere's president David Wirshing: "No one's ever built a tower in conjunction with a facility like this before. There'll be all sorts of unknowns, and a few inevitable hitches." He might take heart from the notoriously ragged 1993 opening...
Each weekend, students can see everything from orchestras to a capella groups. Some of the nation's best-known musical talents hail from Harvard: Yo Yo Ma '76, Leonard Bernstein '39, Robinson Professor of Music Robert D. Levin '68 and more recently, jazz musician Joshua Redman '91 and cellist Matt Haimovitz...