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TERRENCE D. SAMUEL JR. Gates...
...where in 1994 cops sampled 2,300 men in search of a serial killer. The dragnet did not catch the killer. Of the 18 publicized U.S. sweeps, only one--a narrow sampling of 25 workers at a nursing home--has been successful, according to a 2004 study by criminologist Samuel Walker of the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Walker called the sweeps "unproductive" and said that if they are to continue, national guidelines are urgently needed...
...market?in its first year of operation. It took I Cable, Hong Kong's sole cable-TV provider, five years to reach that milestone after launching in 1993. "Two years ago, I wouldn't have predicted that our main competition would be from the phone company," says Samuel Wong, I Cable...
Blackness includes the usual complement of interviews with experts and star voices (Samuel L. Jackson reads Johnson's quotes), but as in Burns' earlier projects, the real star here is the archival material, especially the excavated fight reels. In one, Johnson teasingly applauds an opponent midround for landing a punch. In the Tommy Burns fight, the frame freezes as police stop the fight and order the cameras stilled to spare the world the trauma of seeing a black fighter whip a white one. On film, Johnson's singularity is stark: he is a lone, relentless black giant amidst...
...Staff writers Samuel C. Scott and Jonathan J. Lehman contributed to the reporting of this article. —Staff writer Michael R. James can be reached at mrjames@fas.harvard.edu...