Word: five
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...outgoing NATION editor, Terry Zintl, is enduring a crash course in Italian to prepare for a change of scene as Rome bureau chief. During his five years in the section, Zintl brought an expansive outlook to the job, which White says will continue. "The mood and tone of the U.S. is set as much outside Washington as inside," says Zintl. "We tried to find out what our leaders were saying but also what Americans were doing." From his Rome base, he will have the even more expansive task of finding out how the people of three ancient cultures -- Italy, Greece...
...Katharine as publisher. While Mrs. Graham took pride in Bradlee's hard-edged approach and backed him when he drew criticism, the young Graham is more attuned to Downie's wariness. He has turned the Post's focus more toward local news, opening four suburban bureaus in the past five years. Says Graham: "We want to be the paper for everybody in this area -- people with key federal jobs and, we hope, the people who clean their offices...
...amounts of time, money and column inches to tackle tough subjects and tangle with public figures. He permitted some reporters to work as long as two years on a single investigative project. The results were an impressive 17 Pulitzer Prizes in 18 years, including one this year for a five-part series on the safety of the nation's blood banks. "Roberts assembled a newsroom that was, pound for pound, better than anyone's," says Charles Eisendrath, director of the University of Michigan's Journalism Fellows Program...
...After five days, at least 30 dead and 150 wounded, Yasin Abu Bakr, leader of the abortive coup, emerged from the television-broadcast building in Port-of- Spain and laid down his rifle. "Allah is the greatest," he said, then stood in the pouring rain as 70 of his followers added their arms to the growing pile of weapons and were taken into custody by Trinidadian soldiers. The rebels are expected to face criminal charges of treason, murder and kidnapping, and could be hanged if found guilty...
...than any other park, employs 400-plus performers -- comparable with the combined casts of all the musicals currently on Broadway -- in a dozen shows with a cumulative annual audience of nearly 5 million. Most of these actors, and the bulk of their counterparts at other theme parks, appear in five or six daily performances of a half-hour or more, six days a week, often outdoors in 90 degrees heat, with no showers backstage. They develop discipline and stamina. Even harder, they learn to keep fresh a routine they are performing for the 300th time but that spectators are seeing...