Watergate-era Post editor dies at 93
WASHINGTON – Ben Bradlee, the hard-charging editor who guided The Washington Post through its Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Watergate scandal and invigorated its newsroom for more than two decades, died Tuesday. He was 93.
Bradlee died at his home of natural causes, the Post reported.
As managing editor first and later as executive editor, the raspy-voiced Bradlee engineered the transformation of the Post from a sleepy hometown paper into a great national one. He brought in a cast of talented journalists and set editorial standards that brought the paper new respect.
Bradlee became famous for his role in toppling another, Richard Nixon, helping guide Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s coverage of the Watergate scandal.
Archaelogists find rare statue in Athens
ATHENS, Greece – Archeologists in Greece have uncovered a rare wooden statue preserved in the muddy depths of an ancient well in Piraeus, the port of Athens.
A Culture Ministry statement said Tuesday that the roughly 20-inch-high dressed male figure was found without its head, hands and feet, together with broken pottery dating to about 100-86 B.C.
It was unclear who the statue might depict.
The piece was found during an excavation of ancient wells in central Piraeus, where a new subway line will be built.
Associated Press
