Sam Roberts has been a reporter, columnist, and editor at "The New York Times" since 1983 and is also the host of "New York Close-Up," a nightly television interview program on the cable news station New York 1. He is the author of W"ho We Are: A Portrait of America" based on the latest U.S. Census, published in 1994, and "The Brother: The Untold Story of the Rosenberg Case. "He lives in Manhattan.