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The slightly higher overall sentencing rate for white defendants was due to the fact that cases with white victims were more likely to elicit a death sentence than cases where the victim was black, and most murders occurred between people of the same race.

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In Kyrgyzstan, just over the last few weeks, unprecedented levels of violence occurred between ethnic Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbeks.

The lowest number of combatant casualties occurred in 2003, with just 20,000 killed.

As it turns out, it occurred to Tom that a $20 helmet is a good way to protect a $100,000 graduate education.

And frankly, although I keep getting asked this, it never occurred to me that anybody would turn me down under the circumstances.

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