title wordwrap with images

Version 1.5.6 RC7 r1420 .

I'm trying to figure out how to get the flexicontent "news" template to show the image in front of the title but also wordwrap the title underneath the title if the text is too long rather than wrapping it under the image. Getting the image first was easy but I'm having trouble with the wordwrapping. I'm assuming this would mean creating a table with the image and title being separate cells. However, it appears that this is using its own special method of creating rows. What would be your suggestion on how to do this? The only other option I've found is to limit the title text to a specific number but that isn't ideal.
The example I working with is the news section on the left side of this site. dev.warnerpacific.edu

Since there was no response to this, I just created a new table and embedded each element into the table. That was the only way I could get it to work. If you have a different/cleaner suggestion, I'm open.

i think it could not be done easily with just CSS and existing new.php template HTML,

but i guess it makes sense such a layout , future versions of news.php template maybe altered to allow this