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...however, Cruise was full of praise for the Hasty Pudding and enjoyed the royal treatment he got from Harvard for the day. He had dinner at Locke-Ober with the top Pudding officers and spent time talking to students involved in the production. Dean of the Law School Robert Clark gave him a tour of the campus and a certificate in honor of "outstanding contributions to the reputation of Harvard Law School." As Cruise himself so deftly put it, "It is a relief that my lasting contribution to the world of entertainment has nothing to do with the fact that...
...executives Eric Ober and Howard Stringer suggest, implausibly, that the co-anchorship was Rather's idea; Rather recalls that Stringer broached the notion. But even Ober, for all his gush about freeing Dan to report from the field, admits the goal is better numbers. In the 12 years since Rather took over for Walter Cronkite, the show's share of the audience has shriveled by a third. Meanwhile, Tom Brokaw's piece has shrunk only 10%, and Peter Jennings' has held steady -- heroic achievements in this twilight-of-the-networks...
...Navaraj, Locke Ober, Winter Pl. "I'm going to my mother-in-law's house where she'll make smoked codfish and potatoes--she's from Portugal, I'm from Thailand. We don't eat turkey...
Higgins, 51, grouched cheerfully about such matters over an easeful lunch in what must no longer be called the men's bar at Locke-Ober, hard by the Boston Common. Books, as distinct from best sellers, just aren't thought important, he says. He notes with disgust that even in the most literate city in North America (that's Boston), the leading paper (the Globe, though he deplores its preachiness) barely bothers to scrape together a Sunday book-review section. And justifies this lapse (says Higgins, a onetime Globe columnist) because it doesn't get enough book ads. "Does...
...center of the action. But last week he missed a big story back on his home turf. In another spasm of turmoil at the angst-ridden House of Murrow, CBS News president David Burke, 54, was forced to resign after two years on the job. Eric Ober, 48, a 24-year veteran of CBS who currently runs the five local stations that the network owns, will become the fourth news president since Laurence Tisch took over the network four years ago. Although CBS executives denied that Burke was ousted because of budget disputes, the move appeared to mark another chapter...