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...newsman TOM BROKAW sent the graduating class of Connecticut's Fairfield University into the marketplace with this earnest aphorism: "It's easy to make a buck but hard to make a difference." Easy for him, anyway, especially if he decides to make a difference to the Cable News Network. A few days after the ceremony, the New York Times reported that CNN had offered Brokaw, 57, a $7 million-a-year gig. That's $3 million or $4 million more than the anchor is making now, and Brokaw's NBC contract expires Aug. 30. But outlandish sums often crop...
Jones' address to the Class of 1997 will occur as part of the Commencement Week festivities, just one day before graduation. He follows Tom Brokaw and Hank Aaron, the last two Class Day orators...
...Enquirer and other tabloids to withdraw their rewards, saying "My husband and I do not want their money to be associated with our son." Even after the arrest, the family expressed displeasure with the paper. "They were very happy to get the information," says Cosby family spokesman David Brokaw, "but they had real reservations and regrets that the way it was found was through the Enquirer." Still the paper contends Markhasev's arrest is the ultimate vindication of its controversial approach to information gathering. Says Enquirer executive editor David Perel: "Money can be a very valuable and powerful tool...
Game Three was all about intensity. The Garden was rocking before the tip, with celebrities Tom Brokaw, Woody and Soon-Yi, and Spike Lee assuming their usual courtside posts...
...velvet tonsils of a network news anchor. Apparently not, at least not when they're delivered about a fellow evening star. After CBS newsman DAN RATHER used the word "news-lite" several times to describe his competitors' newscasts in an otherwise genial interview in the Philadelphia Inquirer, TOM BROKAW's hackles were raised. Asked for comment, Brokaw remarked that he didn't "want to pick an argument with Dan," but he did recall the time that Connie Chung anchored an entire broadcast from the ice skating rink where Tonya Harding practiced. "Whenever there is the first hint of a counterclockwise...