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...suspect's story rocks Rome...
Thomas P. Thompson Rome...
...domestic news bureaus (in Washington, New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago and San Francisco), foreign correspondents in Rome and London and a joint bureau with the Canadian Television Network in Peking. It plans to open offices soon in Bangkok, and Amman, Jordan. Headquarters for the operation is an antebellum mansion on 22 acres in Atlanta that cost $8.5 million to acquire and refurbish. CNN has spent $10 million on space-age TV equipment, most of it for the Atlanta studio. Cable systems around the country that subscribe to CNN will receive its programs from a communications satellite orbiting...
...Ancient Rome bestowed laws, roads, imperial machismo, crucifixions, la dolce vita and the drama of decline and fall, the longest-running show in Western history. The city continues to give the impression of crumbling into its own ruins, its reputation as decadence central cheered on by Fellini and Gore Vidal. But like a Verdi heroine dying with a knife in her breast, Rome continues to sing impressively...
...movie reviews and articles are as much a part of Roman life as the traffic. In addition, Moravia benefits from the special relationship European authors have with their readers. Strangers greet him on the street, and journalists constantly seek his opinions. At 72 he still considers himself one of Rome's foremost "emergency intellectuals," a cultural SWAT team always ready to sign a petition, write protest letters or give interviews for liberal causes...