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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...
...turned out, enough to win the title. Cornell took two out of three games from Harvard during the two-day tournament in Fairfield, Conn., as the Crimson was the ECAC runner-up for the second time in three years...
...ECACs is a four-team, double-elimination tournament for the top Eastern teams that didn't make the NCAAs. This year the field included among others, top-ranked Maryland and No. 4 Fairfield. Harvard was ranked second, having swept Cornell in a two-game series earlier this season...
...second game on Saturday, Harvard defeated host Fairfield, 2-1, to stay alive in the tournament. Then, surprisingly Cornell topped Maryland--the Atlantic Coast Conference co-champions--which pitted the Terrapins against the Crimson in the first Sunday game...