A new proof of James' sup theorem
  We provide a new proof of James' sup theorem for (non necessarily separable) Banach spaces. One of the ingredients is the following generalization of a theorem of Hagler and Johnson (1977) : "If a normed space $E$ does not contain any asymptotically isometric copy of $\ell^1(\IN)$, then every bounded sequence of $E'$ has a normalized block sequence pointwise converging to 0". 
Marianne Morillon (ERMIT)