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...News Anchor Tom Brokaw will be the keynote speaker at this year's Class Day celebration on June 5, the senior class marshals announced yesterday...
Radcliffe First Marshal Miwa Powell '96 was also enthusiastic about the decision to invite Brokaw...
...seeks out performers to act as surrogates to tweak, if not debase, people in power. But for the first time, the correspondents' association sent a formal letter of apology to the President. "What did the organization think they were getting when they invited Imus? I fault them," said Tom Brokaw. abc's Jackie Judd, one of the dinner's organizers, said, "We wanted some discomfort, but not that much." After the show, White House press secretary Michael McCurry called C-SPAN to ask that it not re-air the event. In a press release C-SPAN countered that the public...
...gave some people the idea that he had missed his true calling: anchorman! He had it all: the authority and irony, the requisite twinkle. That craggy charisma would have sat smartly behind a Formica desk. But then news imitated art: the networks created their own lower-wattage Redfords in Brokaw, Jennings, Stone Phillips. And now, when Redford finally gets into a TV-news movie, he's nearly 60, too old to begin a career as anchor. His job in Up Close and Personal is to mentor the promising rookie played by Michelle Pfeiffer...
...told. I'd say it's a B or a B-plus performance." Yet his attorneys reportedly tried to talk Simpson out of doing the interview (as they did three months ago, when he agreed to and later backed out of an interview with NBC's Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric). Their worry is that any contradictions between comments by Simpson on the tape and those he has made previously can be used against him in the civil case scheduled to begin in early April. But Simpson brushed aside their warnings, saying he needed the money. According to one insider...