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When Americans first became interested in the idea of criminal "profiling," it seemed a heroic pursuit. A decade ago we fell in love with Clarice Starling, the fictional FBI agent chasing a serial killer. But was Starling a racial profiler? Remember the scene in The Silence of the Lambs in which Special Agent Crawford asks for a description of the man the two are after? Her first answer is that the killer is "a white male." It just so happens that nearly all American serial killers have been white men. It just so happens that blacks commit a disproportionate percentage...
...over the newspaper in 1963 following the death of her husband Philip, Graham guided the Post's transformation into one of the most powerful newspapers in the country, joining the New York Times in its 1971 quest to publish the Pentagon papers and overseeing her paper's history-making pursuit of the Watergate scandal. (See Appreciation, page...
...Officers arrived at the Mather House tower in pursuit of a reported suspicious person attempting to enter the building using a lost ID, only to find the individual gone on arrival...
Richardson said that the Institute’s mission statement—which includes both a broader devotion to the pursuit of advanced work across a wide range of academic disciplines and a continuing commitment to the study of women, gender and society—attracted her to the Radcliffe job, along with the chance to work with the “dynamic” Faust...
...artiste-savant act fool you. Moby is extremely shrewd when it comes to the pursuit of profit. After his 1999 album, Play, stalled on the charts because it couldn't break through niche-driven radio playlists, Moby and longtime managers Marci Weber and Barry Taylor devised a remarkable strategy in which all 18 album cuts were licensed for commercial use. Songs from Play showed up in ads for Nordstrom and Nissan, in an Oliver Stone movie and--egad!--on Veronica's Closet before finally muscling their way onto radio in between Limp Bizkit and Britney Spears...