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...death row population Because murder in America is, for the most part, "segregated"--e.g. whites usually kill whites and Blacks usually kill Blacks--the effects of offender victim discrimination tend to cancel each other out, and the percentage of death row inmates who are Black thus seems to correspond to the percentage of those arrested for homicide who are Black...
Design for Living is the story of three young "artistic souls" and their precocious attempts at worldliness. The settings of the three scenes correspond to stages in the heroine Gilda's conquest of the world through the men who surround her. (One is forced to be forgiving of plays written in the thirties.) In the first, Gilda leaves the Parisian garret of the artist Otto to run off with his best friend, the playwright Leo. The second act takes place in Leo's "comfy" London townhouse, when the newly successful Otto comes to reclaim her. Gilda dumps both...
...West Europeans, declining oil prices are in one sense a mixed blessing: the controversial Soviet natural-gas pipeline is much less attractive than before. Among the terms the Europeans granted the Soviets was a guaranteed floor price on 80% of the gas delivered. It was pegged to correspond with the benchmark price then in effect for OPEC...
...come to a decision as to how we think a student's education should be financed," Hicks explains. "If that doesn't correspond with the family's, that doesn't necessarily mean we'll re-think." If, as Harvard tends to recommend, one borrows the maximum and works at least one term, Hicks says. "It's difficult for the student to do much more...
...appropriately footnoted, from a scholarly reference work by Josefina Ludmer. But after examining the paper carefully, Napolitano's professor, Sylvia Molloy, discovered that Ludmer was quoted far more often than the footnotes indicated. Molloy charged that Napolitano deliberately changed the page numbers of quotations cited by Ludmer to correspond to those in her own edition of the García Márquez novel. "The paper Gabrielle Napolitano has turned in," Molloy informed Assistant Dean Peter Onek, "has been lifted, I am afraid, word for word in its near entirety from that book. .. I have no doubt that...