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Yet when statistics regarding the race of both the offender and the victim are isolated and analyzed separately, as was done in a 1980 study by two Massachusetts criminologists. William Bowers and Glenn Pierce, the results are indeed starting. After a comprehensive examination of the administration of the death penalty...

Author: By Rurry T. Fisher, | Title: Judging Color | 2/24/1984 | See Source »

Explanations for this trend are, to some extent, necessarily speculative. Intuitively subtle or even unconscious racism on the part of not only juries but also judges and prosecutors, seems to lie at the root of the problem. In any particular case, a death sentence is only the final stage in...

Author: By Rurry T. Fisher, | Title: Judging Color | 2/24/1984 | See Source »

SHOREHAM. Overlooking the sound on the North Shore of New York's Long Island, this 1,100-MW plant was supposed to cost $241 million when it was started in 1965 and was expected to go on line in 1975. Now nearly a decade behind schedule, the plant will cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pulling the Nuclear Plug | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

Below average: Taylor, Tyler, Fillmore, Coolidge, Pierce.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Trying to Measure Greatness | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

This exchange is almost thrown away in Star 80, the terse, harrowing movie Bob Fosse has made to explain what finally led Snider to murder the one he loved (and kill himself as well). But the words pierce to the heart of the matter as the writer-director sees it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Centerfold Tragedy of Manners | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

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