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...survived by his wife, Joan (Dreyfus)Wylie of Cambridge; two sons, Jonathan of Belmont,Mass., and David of Concord, Mass.; threestepchildren, James Blout of Concord, Mass., SusanB. Merry of Chicago, and William Blout ofLexington, Mass.; 14 grandchildren from thecombined families; and his brother, Francis E.Wylie of Hingham...
...fictional Powers programs the neural simulator, reads to it great chunks of literature and history, questions it and eventually is questioned by it: "What race am I? What races hate me?" The big network likes Mozart and knows "something about the Dreyfus case and the Boer War" but is ignorant of such things as "corks stuck in bottles, the surface of a liquid reflection ... wrappers and price tags, up versus down, the effects of hunger ..." The hero comes to think of the computer as female and calls it Helen...
...funds are now paying more than 5 percent. The top performer is Benham's Prime Money Market Fund, based in Mountain View, California, which was yielding 5.12 percent. In second place, yielding 5.09 percent, is the Olde Premium Plus Money Market Series, available through the discount broker Olde. The Dreyfus Basic Money Market fund is third, with a 5.02 percent yield. The average money-market fund is paying only 4.35 percent, up from 4.29 percent last week, according to the weekly report by IBC/Donoghue...
...single-guest interview show: turned it into another Letterman knockoff. He has added a studio audience, an opening monologue (video clips of the day's news followed by Kinnear wisecracks) and lots of prepared shtick to keep the interviews from bogging down in, say, real conversation. For Julia Louis-Dreyfus, he introduced a taped bit purporting to reveal that she is actually bald. For Martin Short, he took out a script of ! The Bodyguard and asked Short to read for the Kevin Costner part. The program's redeeming feature is Kinnear himself, who is confident and comfortable in his first...
Mellon Bank, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, announced a $1.85 billion deal to acquire Dreyfus, the nation's sixth largest mutual-fund company. Dreyfus manages more than $80 billion in assets...