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Show v t "' ' " 7"7 j " W H1 SECTION v . v - 2aUcroti SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 12, 2004 UFE ft STYLE EDITOR v www x I eamkusOheraldextra.com Elyssa Andrus - 344-255- 3 V FILEAssociated Press Brokaw would T"t.V, ,1 ''f J . " rather fadeaway - Roger Catlin THE HARTFORD COURANT Now that he's covered his last presidential primaries and last political conventions as an anchor of "NBC Nightly News," Tom Brokaw has his last national election night looming before he finally retires. "A lot of my friends and even my family members are waiting for me to blink," Brokaw says. "But I don't think I wilL" At 64, Brokaw is the youngest among the gray anchor elite that includes Dan Rather, 72, and Peter Jennings, 66 what he jokingly calls the "three aging white men who are still Irving." Yet Brokaw's hardly ready for total retirement. Indeed, in a report Friday on "NBC Dateline," Brokaw followed Aron Ralston into the Utah canyon where the climber cut off his own arm to escape entrapment and death. As Ralston d climbed down a crevasse or 60 feet to a canyon floor in the report, Brokaw was right behind him. When Brokaw appeared before reporters in Los Angeles this summer to reluctantly it was a discuss his retirement few months after his April climb with Ralston. He looked as if he might have come directly from the mountains, dressed in his rugged Montana outerwear instead of an anchorman's tie and jacket. "The fact is I didn't want to come here for this," he says, vowing to avoid the kind of farewell hoopla that accompanied the finales of "Friends" and "Frasier" last spring. "I'm hosing down ideas about parties and big epic farewells. I just think that's inappropriate." But some acknowledgments, induding the Lifetime Achievement Award he'll get during the awarding of the News and Documentary Emmy Awards on Monday in New York, will be unavoidable. And the change will be major when Brian Williams replaces Brokaw at the anchor desk Dec. 2. 4 rap-pelle- 1 1 hand represents both the plea of African countries for help from the world, and also all that his people and other African nations want to give. , . "Rescue," by Atem Aleu. The artist says the The art of healin A Lost Boy of Sudan finds hope in painting ' Elizabeth Bennett . DAILY HERALD, h .. ' , ' ' ; ' l Lynell George ., " i . in 1i , : M 'VL. i 1 : 'V"i i, .1 What: "The lost Boys of .Sudan: The Hidden Holocaust" art exhibit' When: Continuing through Oct , " LOS ANGELES 0 For the past three years, Brigham Young . University student Atem Aleu has celebrat- - ' ed his birthday on Jan. 1 a date assigned by the US. government. He says he's 23, but it's impossibte to know for sure. His real birthday was lost somewhere in Africa, on a trek from Sudan to Ethiopia and, later, Kenya. ' .. ; He does remember 1983, though. Itwas the year civil war broke out in Sudan, the eyes as sol- year he watched with diers forcea his mother ;and an older broth- - v er into a nearby riveri where they drowned.''. The brutal, bloody cM war set in motion ' . . r v '., r f See: 'WST BOVS, D5 , .v ' : , l i V V ' (, ,' i , .: vn . ,' ' - 23 , Wnarw tJVSC Woodbury Art Museum, University Mall i Etc.:The Lost Boys of Sudan" will be shown In conjunction with an exhibit by Bevan ' rhinman titlivl "Thn Wnmn- - FinHino Hem - - 4 , " im i ' v ' ".'''?',.. ure inunenca. v for fame, fortune . ! . Flipping homes . ' JEREMY HARWHDaily Herald student Atem Aleu, who was one of the Lost Boys of Sudan, talks about his experiences in Africa and, later, the United States. An exhibit of his artwork continues thtoueh Oct 23 at the IIVSC Wnndhurv Art Museum at University Mali BYU - ; . Relying mightily on her powers of imagination, Jeanetta Standefor paces the length of an unremarkable bare box of a dark living room of an equally nondescript condo complex in Pasadena. Though just a week or so into escrow, Standefor already has big plans: "I want to replace that acoustic ceiling," she waves her hand at the "cottage cheese" above. "I'm thinking, I want to do something Mediterranean in this room because that's popular now." She muses, then heads into the next set of rooms. "That Formica? When was the last time youVe seen that in a kitchen? I think I want to resurface it in granite," she decides, then strolls toward the rear rooms. "And here," she says, standing in the center of a forkm-tookin- g master-bedroosuite, "I'm going to work on different window treatments. Maybe plantation ' shutters. Then some Berber carpets." - r TIMES - See FLIPPING, D5 2 1 1 |