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...Delma Banks Jr. was as good as dead on March 12, 2002, when the Supreme Court ordered a stay of execution with only a few minutes to spare. That was his 15th scheduled execution date. A black man convicted of murder in 1980 by an all-white jury, Banks appealed his death sentence on the grounds of racial bias, defense incompetence and prosecutorial misconduct. Only these last two claims were accepted for review...
...four-member editorial board consisting of Delma Y. Jarrett '99, Gaurav A. Upadhyay '00, Rajesh Yalamanchili '00 and Business Manager Darcy A. Paul '99. The current editors could not be reached for comment last night...
...poor," says William Burrus, executive director of Accion International, a private development organization in Cambridge, Mass. Accion has loaned $75 million to workers in Central and South America and created 100,000 permanent jobs. When Accion decided to widen its mission to fight poverty in the U.S., it dispatched Delma Soto-Larsen to start a self-employment project in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. She has an M.B.A. and has worked for Citibank and Chemical Bank, but her real education began when Accion sent her to Colombia to unlearn all that she had been taught. "You're doing everything that...
...grew up in the same neighborhood in Allentown, Pa., as Lee Iacocca, and was a close schoolgirl friend of his sister, Delma. (Lido was a slender, soft-spoken kid-several years our junior-in those days.) But I would like to say that his success couldn't happen in a nicer family...
Army training methods are excellent. At Fort Jackson, S.C., last week, Company B, 2nd Battalion, ist Training Regiment fidgeted in new, stiff fatigues and listened to Sergeant Delma Stanfill bark out the basic facts about a gas mask. At the end of the drill, after they had practiced donning the mask, another sergeant tested them by dropping smoke and tear gas grenades near by. About 20 of the basic trainees bolted in terror for the woods. In the past, trainees have cried for their mothers. But, after this first day of panic, most of the trainees complete the tough, eight...
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