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WINNERS
1. The Oregon Ballet Theatre's artistic director,
James Canfield, got rave reviews in Sunday's The
New York Times. Noting that "Mr. Canfield attracts controversy
the way velvet attracts lint," Portland dance critic Cerinda
Survant came to his defense, writing that "few men in Portland
combine the indigenous informality with as much studied
urban cool as he does."
2. Portland's leading ad agency will be relying
less on macrobrews and more on microchips. Wieden &
Kennedy rebounded from its recent loss of the Miller
Genuine Draft account with news that it has been hired by
AltaVista, one of the nation's leading search engines.
3. Employees of the Oregon Health Division's
Vital Records Unit have a two-week reprieve, thanks
to a court-ordered delay in the implementation of last year's
voter-approved law opening up adoption records. The agency
has received 1,045 requests for original birth certificates
from Oregon adoptees.
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LOSERS
1. Blue-collar Portlanders cried in their beer last
week when the last case of Henry's rolled out of the old
Blitz-Weinhard brewery downtown. That unmistakable aroma,
once as much a local landmark as the Hawthorne Bridge, is
now nothing more than a hazy memory. It's enough to drive
us to Pabst Blue Ribbon.
2. Backup center Kelvin Cato seems destined
for the pine or a new address after the Blazers signed Jermaine
O'Neal to a four-year contract reportedly worth $24 million.
You can bet the 20-year-old O'Neal will get some court time
for his hefty paycheck.
3. Things went from bad to worse last week for state
Republicans. A KATU-TV/The Oregonian poll showed
that people wanted handgun control (which the Legislature
did not give them) and didn't want a gas tax (which they
got). Democratic strategists are
licking their stamps.
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