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Brian Williams The former volunteer firefighter is the Emmy Award--winning anchor of NBC Nightly News. Barack Obama's election has forever changed the poster of the Presidents in the front of most elementary-school classrooms in the U.S. We have now lived long enough to see historic change in the White House. Converting that into a successful presidency is another matter...
...completed a documentary on global warming in 2006. Covering the environment isn't a fad for Brokaw - the South Dakota native is a longtime outdoorsman, often fly-fishing near his home in Montana and hiking with green friends like Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard. The former NBC Nightly News anchor just finished a new climate change documentary - Global Warming: The New Challenge with Tom Brokaw - which airs on the Discovery Channel on Mar. 18. Brokaw spoke to TIME in New York shortly after his return from a biking trip to Africa. Apparently semi-retirement isn't so bad. (See pictures...
Words can hurt. That's a lesson Ben Bernanke learned not long after being confirmed in January 2006 as the head of the U.S. Federal Reserve. At a Washington dinner a few months later, Bernanke responded to a question from CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo, who asked whether the media and financial markets were right to think that he had signaled the Fed was done raising interest rates. "He said, flatly, no," she reported on her program at about 3:15 p.m. the following Monday, causing stock prices to drop sharply before the market closed. He called that move a mistake...
...Pollak said.Leading the way for Harvard, Pollak finished in a four-way tie at sixth, shooting +10 in the three-round weekend. Pollack, who led all competitors at last fall’s Big 5 Invitational in par-5 holes, seems to be emerging as the indisputable anchor of the Crimson squad, despite being just a freshman.Junior Danny Mayer shot +16 to tie at 27th, while classmate Greg Shuman shot 19 over for a share of 39th. Shuman also finished as the third-best golfer on par-3 holes, averaging 3.08 strokes.“We got better...
What made it worse for me was a lot like what Melissa is going through, because I was on television. I was the 5:00 anchor at our ABC affiliate, and I was on television every day. When I left that day, the whole town knew I was getting married. It was so embarrassing. It was in the gossip column by Monday morning in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. It was on the radio - these were all my friends in radio who were letting my fiancé have it. But I couldn't help thinking at the time that this...