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...Bowers and Pierce found strong statistical evidence to support discrimination claims. In Florida for example, among those homicides cases in which the victim was white a Black offender was five times more likely to be sentenced to death than a white offender. Even more remarkable was the pattern of discrimination, as revealed by the study based upon the race of the victim. Among Black offenders in Texas, for example, those whose victims were white were 87 times more likely to receive a death sentence than those whose victims were Black. From all this, according to Bowers and Pierce, emerges...
MORE REFRESHING than all this is that the yuks betray an intelligent pattern or two. Taylor and Calnek aren't so dumb as to take themselves or the show seriously (a Battle of the Sexes satire in drag?), but they abandon the sterile money/sex/class warfare formula of recent years for some genuinely fresh jabs at popular culture. TV commercial references abound--"This is mutiny, men!" "Yeah, it'll take more than Bounty to clean up this mess." Missionary Position's Sun Myung Moon-esque paradise turns out to be McDonald's, with the preacher at his pulpit dispensing McNuggets...
...latest Pentagon boo-boo falls into an all too predictable pattern of willful misrepresentation that has come to characterize the Weinbergian spending and procurement process. A curious mind set has come to accompany the staggering arms build up Weinberger and Reagan have embarked on an outlook that consistently underestimates the costs of the fancy weapons systems the Administration wants and consistently miscalculates the nature of the military threat posed by our adversaries...
...example of integrating community activities with the display of objects. European museums, like Paris' Louvre, originated with royal collections. In America, the old Ecole des Beaux-Arts temples were usually built to stand apart from the city's commercial bustle. The first modern museum to break the pattern was, appropriately enough, New York City's Museum of Modern Art, which in 1939 built its first new home in the heart of downtown. While the old museums featured formal, skylit rooms, MOMA presented its art on open, loftlike floors that could be partitioned or rearranged like stage sets...
Postel said that the current outbreak occured primarily among young people might be attributed to the virus's cyclic pattern and that possibly the present generation of college age students grew up without immunity...