He was twenty-seven years old, and employed as a speech therapist in Boston.

NEWYORKER: In the Air

Twenty-seven years ago Ted Turner gave the world its first all-news channel, CNN.

ECONOMIST: The coming glut of international all-news TV channels

She was twenty-seven years old, the mother of a young boy.

CNN: 'Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter's Story'

Twenty-seven years after launching her own business, she's a byword for single-minded dedication, still creating looks that embrace the androgynous modernity with which she first made her name.

WSJ: Deconstructing Designer Ann Demeulemeester

It was 1997 and he was twenty-seven years old.

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Twenty-seven uncompromising years in prison would alone have been enough to ensure the world's admiration for Nelson Mandela.

ECONOMIST: A survey of South Africa

Casting herself in the Ted Stevens mold, however, she had proved herself skilled at collecting federal earmarks for Wasilla, bringing in twenty-seven million dollars for her small town in three years.

NEWYORKER: The State of Sarah Palin

The twenty-something artist became interested in dough sculpting after visiting a folk-arts exhibition in Beijing about seven years ago.

CNN: Some Downsizing Works