A study in 1999 by Eliot Spitzer, then the state's attorney general, found that blacks and Hispanics were disproportionately stopped in relation to their involvement in crime and their share of the city's population.
It does this through a compulsory fingerprinting system known as EURODAC, which tracks every foreign national over 14 years of age who applies for asylum or is stopped in relation to his immigration status within the EU.
The young Iris saw him as a Christ figure, with herself as Mary Magdalene (until Mrs. MacKinnon put a stop to their relations).
The intricately braided connections among these people (and at least a half-dozen other equally vivid minor characters) recall Henry James's observation that truly, universally, relations stop nowhere.
James said, of the relation of fiction to life: "Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw … the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so".
But even that may be to overestimate the results of the forthcoming diplomacy.The nuclear and missile issues are what stop North Korea's relations with America moving very far forward.
Henry James once said that "really, universally, human relations stop nowhere," and that the exquisite problem of the writer is to draw the circle "within which they shall happily appear to do so".
Because he is the kind of writer for whom (as Henry James put it) "relations stop nowhere," regular stanzas — he often favors the tercets that Wallace Stevens adapted from Dante — act as his firewall, his check on language that otherwise threatens to go utterly haywire.
In his preface to the New York edition of "Roderick Hudson," James wrote, "Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw . . . the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so".
"Really, universally, relations stop nowhere," Henry James would write, 40 years later, in his preface to the New York Edition of his early novel Roderick Hudson, "and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so".
