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...screens. Yet even AMC, the aggressive, $900 million-a-year pioneer of megaplexes, based in Kansas City, Mo., is scaling down some of its 30-screen locations. "When does the big wave of capital expenditure end and we get to see some return on the investment?" asks Stewart Halpern, a senior analyst at ING Barings, who remains cautiously bullish. "That point seems to keep getting pushed off further and further." And if they keep putting up more theaters, profits could remain a coming attraction for quite some time...
...James B. Stewart's Blind Eye: How the Medical Establishment Let a Doctor Get Away with Murder (Simon & Schuster; 334 pages; $25) is a persuasive case against Dr. Michael Swango, a handsome, over-confident physician suspected of poisoning between 35 and 60 patients and co-workers from Illinois to Zimbabwe...
...Stewart's copious findings indicate that hospitals fired Swango rather than risk liability suits and damaging publicity. But such butt covering does not support the subtitle's alarmist indictment of "the medical establishment." Yet the need to buck up Stewart's new book with a sensational subtitle is understandable. In his 1991 best seller, Den of Thieves, the author had the advantage of writing about financiers Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky, two super-rich felons rarely out of the limelight. Swango resists efforts to come alive on the page. He is a shadowy figure, an evasive loner with bizarre obsessions...
...been convicted of a single murder. This pesky legality results in some narrative discordance. For 300 pages, Blind Eye has Swango killing people right and left. Yet Stewart's conclusion contains a flurry of qualifying statements like "Swango is the first alleged serial killer in this century to have emerged in the guise of a physician." However inconvenient, writers have to obey libel laws; too many lawyers are watching. But where were the language police when Stewart chose the word guise? It means semblance, and if we know anything for sure, it is that Swango did not resemble a doctor...
...worth more than a field goal; this is still an expansion team we're talking about, and Ty Detmer ain't Doug Flutie. Look for the defection-gutted Steelers to get 75 yards from nimble newcomer Amos Zereoue and grimace their way to a two-touchdown win. Unless Kordell Stewart gets emotional...