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OTHER, better, newspapers don't really provide happy mediums between hustle and heart attacks, either, though. At the Washington Post, news reporters--especially on cityside--constantly battle in a cutthroat competition to get their stories on the front page, and consequently tend to go for the quickie scandal rather than the drawn-out drudgery of research into government processes and problems. At The New York Times, the game is total, Machiavellian office politics. Executive editor Abe Rosenthal sits like Jehovah on his throne, flashing thunderbolts from his fingertips at any lower-echelon staffer who incurs his disfavor. Former Crimson president...
...with the tracks, Delp had to import a string of horses for Franklin to ride. Delp blasted Kentucky's horsy hierarchy for making such maneuvers necessary. "We're outsiders and these Kentucky hardboots aren't going to do a thing to help us. This is a cutthroat business, and there's always been a lot of jealousy because I came up through the ranks. But we don't need them. Ronnie will ride our horses, and when Derby Day comes, he'll know where the finish line...
...Bahamian exodus has encouraged a cutthroat smuggling trade, with boat captains charging from $50 to $500 per person and pilots of small planes demanding fares as high as $800 for illegal flights to small Florida airfields. One group of 13 Haitians paid a Bahamian boat captain $450 to take them from Nassau to Miami. But he put them ashore on a deserted island in the Bahamas, telling them, "This is Miami." After three days without food or water, they were rescued by a passing fishing boat...
...more challenging individual performances are also skillfully handled. Andy Sellon, as Littlechap, has the nearimpossible job of generating empathy for this cutthroat protagonist. Littlechap spends the entire play asking for love and approval he doesn't deserve. The audience is supposed to feel sorry for him at the end, when he realizes that he can only love himself. But when he bursts into "What Kind of Fool Am I?" it's a wonder they don't stand up and tell...
...cutthroat business. The total number of dailies in the U.S., currently 1,762, is virtually the same as three decades ago. With many newspapers already devoting from one-quarter to one-half of their news space to syndicated features, more and more syndicates are fighting harder and harder over the same territory. It is a giant zero-sum game. "If somebody wins, somebody loses," explains Dennis R. Allen, president of the (Des Moines) Register and Tribune Syndicate. "If a newspaper adds eight new comics, it cancels eight others. It's highly, highly competitive...