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...reprising the Weekend Update routine from his early stint on NBC's Saturday Night Live. So what does that leave for beleaguered NBC and its corporate parent, General Electric? To stick with the lunch-pail charisma of Jay Leno at 11:30. To hope that Conan O'Brien (Dave's 12:30 replacement) will disprove early indications that he is a human test pattern. And, for now, to cry "Rip-off!" all the way to the courtroom...
...issue -- if anything so frivolous can be called an issue -- was whether a performer can use material created for a program owned by another network. "There are certain intellectual-property issues that do not travel with Dave," warned peacock president Robert C. Wright on NBC's summer press tour, referring to such Letterman shtick as Stupid Pet Tricks, Larry "Bud" and the Top 10 List. "If CBS thought they were buying that, they didn't . . . They can certainly do things like that. But they can't do those things...
...DAVE GOODRICH, WHO OWNS PART OF a small real estate firm in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana, ought to be happy right now. Thanks to the steady decline in mortgage rates, his business is growing rapidly. The company has nearly doubled its work force since 1986, while reinvesting roughly two-thirds of profits in new equipment and office space. But Goodrich worries a lot. His fear: a deficit-reduction package that will clobber many small firms like his. "This is a job-creating company that the government should help, not penalize," he complains. "I'd rather have Bush's recession than Clinton...
...Dave Durenberger (D., Minn...
Compensation figures for Harvard's money managers were filed months earlier on a separate tax return for the Harvard Management Company. One endowment official, Dave Mittelman, earned more than $1.2 million in salary and bonuses. Company President Jack R. Meyer reaped $739,000 in fiscal...