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- FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 15
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- Last month senior editor Jack White took charge of our
- NATION section, and I want to tell you about him. First, he's
- a journalist who has spent 20 years covering business, the
- South, Africa, the Third World, the Midwest and presidential
- politics. Second, Jack is the kind of editor who reaches beyond
- each week's staple news and probes the quieter truths of this
- country with sensitivity and tenacity.
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- For instance, this week NATION tells you about "Dumping on
- the Poor," how many of the country's poorest citizens are
- relegated to living in environmental wastelands. And Jack is
- quickly defining the focus of his section. "Our job is to
- address the two biggest issues facing the U.S.: how America
- redefines its role in the post-cold war world, and how we will
- deal with a host of unsolved domestic problems, from the growth
- of the urban underclass to rebuilding the infrastructure," says
- White.
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- Jack is a classic newsroom journalist -- a reporter turned
- editor, hard driving and known to explode occasionally. He also
- has faith in America's ability to cure its ills. "Despite the
- lack of vision from Washington, this country has enormous
- strengths that can get us through a difficult time," he says.
- "The baby boomers, who grew up with the civil rights and
- women's movements, Vietnam and the sexual revolution, will have
- control of the country. How they cope will be the biggest story
- around."
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- On the leading edge of the baby boom himself, White has
- coped with a few challenges. Born in North Carolina, he was
- convinced by the civil rights movement in the 1960s that
- journalism could play a part in making America's ideals a
- reality. Since joining TIME in 1972, White has handled subjects
- ranging across most of the magazine.
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- Our 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 and Turkey -- are affecting a changing Europe.
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- -- Louis A. Weil III
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