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...wanted the job. But the post is to be taken by a man who spoke after him at the Liberal Party convention in Toronto last week, Paul Martin. A former Finance Minister who has had the longest dauphinate since Brian Williams was first tagged as the heir to Tom Brokaw, Martin will soon replace Jean Chretien, who has led Canada for a decade. Last week the Liberals elected Martin party boss on Chretien's retirement, and the Prime Ministership, for which he has been preparing half his life, will soon...
David Baker had been working for six years to lift his sport from near oblivion when he heard the words he longed to hear. It was the first Sunday of Gulf War II, and NBC anchor Tom Brokaw was wrapping up his report on the latest round of U.S. bombings in Iraq. "And now," Brokaw solemnly intoned, "back to arena football...
...recent criticism of Colin Powell and the Department of State for bungling the diplomacy before and after the Iraq war continues to keep Washington buzzing. But how does President Bush feel about it? TV viewers missed a chance to find out during his interview with NBC's Tom Brokaw three weeks ago. A Bush friend tells TIME that the President "wanted to take a big swipe" at Gingrich during the interview--but Brokaw never brought up the subject. According to an Administration aide, Bush's remarks were going to consign the former Speaker to the cohort of "babbling, divisive people...
...people who have actually met before. Imram regales us with his astute observations and up-to-the-minute Harvard knowledge. “That guy Dean Kirby, I heard he got kicked out. The new dean is Dean Gross.” He’s a regular Tom Brokaw. He goes on to point out the startling resemblance Annenberg has to Hogwarts from Harry Potter. I am stunned by this comparison, or rather my alter ego Leslie is. “Wow, you’re right! That’s so wild!” she replies. Inwardly...
...fantasy (think Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth and Patricia C. Wrede's Dealing with Dragons). The moms' picks have included Laurie Halse Anderson's historical fiction Fever 1793, the story of a young girl during the yellow-fever epidemic in post-Revolutionary Philadelphia, and excerpts from Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation...