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...University's chief spokesperson since 1985, vacated that post at the end of July, after a probe conducted by the Office of Human Resources, according to sources familiar with the investigation. He has moved to another post within the University, at Harvard Magazine, where he is now director of broadcast services, a position that was created...
Cable-TV operators are the robber barons of this end of the century, having built businesses by tuning in local broadcasters' signals, then sending all ^ those programs out along their wires. That's right: what they grab for free, they sell, in bulk, to you. A year ago, after fervid lobbying by the broadcast networks, Congress passed a law obliging the cable operators to start compensating the broadcasters -- or drop the networks from the cable menus...
...fine. There are plenty of goofy-sounding new cable channels in the works -- a channel devoted entirely to food, another devoted entirely to golf -- but at least behind those are single-minded individuals pursuing their dreams of having more shows about pesto and four- irons on TV. The broadcast networks' proposed channels, to the contrary, are not being launched mainly out of Ted Turnerian visionary determination, but defensively, hastily, by default...
Using concealed video cameras, the show's producers sent to the clinic three healthy volunteers posing as patients. As Dateline's correspondent Brian Ross admitted in the broadcast, all three were correctly diagnosed and turned away. "You don't need surgery now," a clinic doctor told Beatrice Caine twice. Undaunted, however, Dateline sent Caine (who has a small but medically insignificant cataract) back to the clinic, where she asked to be scheduled for surgery. Then, as the camera rolled, correspondent Ross suddenly interrupted Caine's presurgery meeting, badgering the stunned doctor that he was about to subject a healthy patient...
...several weeks, the Letterman crew has been taping "remotes" that will look little different from the taped bits familiar to fans of his old show. So far, Letterman has gone on a tour of the CBS Broadcast Center, manned a drive- up window at McDonald's and escorted Zsa Zsa Gabor through a New Jersey neighborhood in a segment titled "Do You Have a Question for Zsa Zsa?" (Letterman's postmortem: "Only one person asked her about slapping the cop. I thought that...