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...charge has some artillery, but he's short of manpower. One of the prisoners has a suggestion: "Why don't you give me one of those guns, Sergeant? I'll help fend off the black hats." It happens that this Good Samaritan is a black hat--a notorious cop killer. Oh, well, imminent death makes for impromptu comrades. Grab a rifle, pilgrim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Repeat Assault, with Vigor | 1/16/2005 | See Source »

...when he put a cute 10-year-old in and out of peril and then--bang!--killed her off, but his style is classic: lots of three-actor medium shots and hardly a raised voice or drop of sweat in all the bombarding. The cop (Austin Stoker), the killer (Darwin Joston), the woman (Laurie Zimmer)--all are professionals, focused on outliving a hard night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Repeat Assault, with Vigor | 1/16/2005 | See Source »

...panicked mother in a small village in Barnstable, Mass., on Cape Cod, reported her 10-week-old son missing. The townsfolk fanned out to search for him. Within hours, his body was found floating in the harbor. Because no strangers were visiting that day, the villagers knew the killer was one of them. At the funeral the next day, each resident was asked to approach the tiny open coffin, lay hands on the body and declare his or her innocence, a scene described by Evan J. Albright in his book Cape Cod Confidential. The villagers were looking for signs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The DNA Dragnet | 1/16/2005 | See Source »

...President Bush called his relationship with the N.A.A.C.P. "basically nonexistent." (Bush met privately with Mfume in late December.) Then the President named Gerald Reynolds, a conservative black Republican with a record of opposing civil rights protections, to head the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. "Racism is not a deal killer like it was in the '60s," Reynolds told TIME. "You can work around it." And a new study by Syracuse University found that federal enforcement of civil rights laws fell drastically from 1999 to 2003. During that period, the number of cases prosecuted dropped nearly 50%, despite a steady number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recharging The Mission | 1/10/2005 | See Source »

...whale of a spectacle. A 300-lb. baby killer whale swam proudly with its brother and 5,000-lb. mom for the first time, after a SURPRISE BIRTH at San Diego's SeaWorld. The baby was born in front of 300 park employees. As the mother went into labor, a video team rushed to the scene and projected the birth live onto ShamuVision, a giant video screen. Scientific tests will soon determine the baby's sex and father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Performance of the Week | 1/9/2005 | See Source »

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