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...gave the district fake addresses in order to attend majority-white schools. Those parents who stayed in the system often did so with a sense of resignation that turned to apathy. "You'd hold a meeting, and maybe one parent would show up if you were lucky," says Diana Brokaw, the mother of a second-and a third-grader. "It was pitiful...
...district says that student attendance and behavior have both improved--and that drug use has dried up to such a degree that the district lost half its federal grant to combat substance abuse. More conclusive proof will come with test scores, due in late summer. Until then, Diana Brokaw is keeping a scorecard of her own. "The other day six parents showed up to chaperone a field trip," she proudly reports. "And two of them were dads...
...cried when I read Tom Brokaw's book The Greatest Generation. I cried again when I read your compilation of last letters from soldiers [NATION, May 29]. I would not be here today were it not for the courageous and brave American G.I.s who liberated me from a prison in Manila on Feb. 4, 1945. I was a teenager and had been interned by the Japanese for three years. We owe eternal thanks to those cheerful, high-spirited and wonderful G.I.s who answered the call to arms. God bless them all! BETSY HEROLD HEIMKE Overland Park, Kans...
...program, I looked into the camera and said 'It's now in God's hands. And God is good. And God is just. One time: Go Bills!' Russert said. "My colleague Tom Brokaw turned to me and said, 'You Irish Catholics from Buffalo are shameless. You can't pray on the air.' I said, 'I just did, Brokaw...
Well, almost everybody. After the committee's recommendation was made public last week, President Clinton told NBC's Tom Brokaw that he still "strongly disagrees" with Judge Wright's ruling--and with the committee's disbarment action too, of course. In a brief filed before the committee, his lawyers continued to insist that his answers in the Jones deposition were "not legally false." "Evasive," yes. And "incomplete." And even "misleading." Just not false. This fantastic denial will be familiar to anyone who followed the impeachment proceedings, and David Kendall, the President's attorney, vowed last week to "vigorously dispute...