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...willing to wait for others to help. The approach fit with Bush's personal style, his self-professed proclivity to dispense with the nuances of geopolitics and go with his gut. "The Bush Doctrine is actually being defined by action, as opposed to by words," Bush told Tom Brokaw aboard Air Force...
...writer headlined a letter about Cooper’s selection to the Yale Daily News, “College fell short with speaker choice.” And Stanford senior Paul S. Wright wrote in an e-mail of his school’s selection of news anchor Tom Brokaw, “I think the general consensus on campus is that it’ll be fine to have him as a commencement speaker. Nobody’s dancing and shouting in the streets or anything.” “Had it been my decision, I would...
DIED. REUVEN FRANK, 85, wry, trailblazing TV news producer; in Englewood, N.J. In a radio-influenced era in which TV news often meant anchors reading headlines, the NBC News president made the most of the new medium, infusing such protgs as Tom Brokaw and Linda Ellerbee with his zeal for compelling storytelling that let pictures shine. Among the Emmy winner's best-known innovations was pairing two anchors in The Huntley-Brinkley Report whose lively pacing, witty asides and hokey sign-off ("Goodnight, David," "Goodnight, Chet") are credited with changing the style of TV news...
...addition to Cardenas, Guseh, Mooney, and Sivanesan, the other students elected were Kangni “Connie” Zong ’06 of Adams House, Syed F.N. Munaim ’06 of Cabot House, Faryl W. Ury ’06 of Dunster House, Stephen S. Brokaw ’06 of Leverett House, Kate E. Delaney ’06 of Mather House, Jannie S. Tsuei ’06 of Quincy House, and Carrie H. Petri ’06 of Winthrop House. In Eliot House, a run-off election between Bushra W. Taha...
...efforts to influence the voting behavior of young people. But Jehmu Greene, president of Rock the Vote, noted that the work of celebrities such as Springsteen or Diddy (who led the “Vote or Die” campaign) led to a historic turnout of young voters. Tom Brokaw moderated the event, employing his trademark baritone and witty style to keep the confab of luminaries loose. He pondered “what success I might have had,” if not rejected by the Harvard admissions committee decades ago. “I didn’t realize...