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Nadjari, 51, had compiled a reasonably good record. He became known as a superb prosecutor during 20 years in New York City and nearby Suffolk County before then-Governor Nelson Rockefeller named him special prosecutor in 1972. The post was created in the malodorous wake of the Knapp Commission hearings on official corruption in the Big Apple, and Nadjari was given extraordinary powers. A Democrat-turned-Republican, Superprosecutor Nadjari went on to indict 296 persons on various charges of corruption. He won guilty verdicts against one district attorney (later reversed) and a number of lesser government officials. No fewer than...
...Saturday the Harvard sailors captured the Arthur Knapp trophy by sweeping the Big Three regatta, held on the Charles. The Harvard team easily defeated Yale and Princeton, cruising out ahead by a 30-point margin. Skippering the Crimson victory were Tom Reps, Jim Hamitt and Tony Legett...
...least part of the movie's interest lies in the fact that Serpico was a real cop, whose allegations and testimony of police corruption lead to the creation of the Knapp Commission investigation of New York's finest. And as in the movie, Serpico ended his career with a bullet in his head--just barely escaping with his life-received under rather questionable circumstances during a narcotics raid for the NYPD...
...humdrum scene at the end, he testifies to the Knapp Commission that there are plenty of honest cops, men like him who would like to come forward, but can't because of the atmosphere of fear and violence. "Atmosphere" again...
...Wexler never detail the reluctance of police higher-ups to listen to Serpico: New York City and police officials are cardboard figures of mishandled authority. Because the film's view of the force is so sketchy, we get little sense of accomplishment or relief from the formation of the Knapp Commission--which was, after all, the first independent police review board in the history of New York City...