Paterson

December 21, 1987

The personnel man for the engineering firm didn't understand what Rory Sparrow had written on the Objectives line of his résumé. "What do you mean you want to enhance the quality of life?' " he asked Sparrow. "What's...

One never quite knew what to make of Rubin (Hurricane) Carter, the top-ranked middleweight contender of the mid-'60s. Was he a child of sorrow, a genuine victim of society—or of himself; or was he a man who would...