The New York Times apparently gave Bill Carter too much space for his retiring-Tom-Brokaw article:

“By the Friday after Election Day, Mr. Brokaw had recovered from his all-nighter. Speaking by telephone from his third home in Bedford, N.Y., where he had started the day — as the thermometer soared to about 45 degrees — by taking a dip in the lake adjacent to his property. (He has been known to skinny-dip in that lake with his wife, Meredith.) “