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...Lions did not commit a single turnover in their victory over Princeton. The last time Columbia did that was in its 44-0 win over Fordham on October 4, 1972. The good ol' days...
...were arraigned in San Diego's municipal court last week, police said neither knew the other had sought a hit man, though they had allegedly discussed their homicidal desires. Their presumed motives: money and money. Mother and daughter are in separate cells pending trials on charges of solicitation to commit murder...
Berlanga himself is tentatively scheduled to appear on Nov. 3 at the screening of his Welcome, Mr. Marshall (1952). Murphy says that if Berlanga is unable to commit to the date, the archive may ask director Manuel Gutierrez Aragon, who has three films in the festival, to speak instead...
...black youths more likely to commit crimes than whites? A glance at the nation's prison population would suggest that the answer is yes. But a surprising new federally funded study says not necessarily. In 1976 University of Colorado Sociologist Delbert Elliott began to follow a nationwide cross section of 1,700 young people, ages 11 to 17 at the time. Periodically they reported to him, in confidence, any episodes of their own criminal or delinquent behavior, whether or not they were caught. The finding after ten years: those who were white reported nearly as many crimes as blacks...
...Black Sambo dolls and black mannequins with grotesquely large lips were on display in Tokyo department stores. Then Michio Watanabe, a senior strategist in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, publicly suggested that U.S. blacks were irresponsible: in a speech he noted that Japanese would "escape into the night or commit family suicide" rather than fail to pay their debts. But in the U.S., Watanabe said, "where credit cards are much in use, a lot of blacks, and so on, think, 'We're bankrupt. We don't have to pay anything starting tomorrow...