Word: serialization
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When I grudgingly agreed to be one of FM’s proofers at the beginning of last semester, I thought I knew what to expect: Some removing of Crimson-hated serial commas, occasionally censoring Gossip Guy and a sneak peak at who had landed on As It Were each week. I was also prepared to pluck pesky libel out of an errant piece—and to see the sun rise on Wednesday morning every now and then...
Proofing FM has not exactly made answering that question easy.As FM proofer, you have to be the enforcer of the minutiae of Crimson form. I have probably removed upward of 1,000 serial commas from the magazine, changed a hundred “freshmen” to “first-years” and insisted dozens of times over that even if we’re talking about University President Lawrence H. Summers’ eating habits or love life, we can’t just refer to him as “Larry.” Starting...
...Predatory transients" are what police call serial killers who strike across vast areas or move to places where they have a better chance of getting away with murder. They were rare in China a decade ago, when internal travel by citizens required official permission. Now, with the easing of residence permits and 120 million migrants already living in the cities, criminals and killers, too, have hit the road. In addition to detaining Ma, a native of Hunan province, police have in recent weeks held a man in Hebei province on suspicion of killing 65 people in four provinces, and another...
...combat serial crimes, law-enforcement officials have tried to improve their technology and methodology. They have created a national computer network that registers suspects from across the country. It helped police catch the suspected Hebei killer, who was detained outside a nightclub before a check was run on his name. Urban police forces can also tap into the registries of upscale hotels. Four forensics labs in major cities now run ballistics tests and check the DNA of suspects and victims, and one such lab reportedly identified the decomposed bodies of the Shenzhen women. Closer to street level, the Ministry...
...boys until the killer had been apprehended, and they have ordered newspapers in Shenzhen to stop covering the murders there. Police like announcing cracked cases but fear coverage of unsolved ones will make them look incompetent. The result, unfortunately, is an unenlightened public at increasing risk from China's serial killers...