Numbers: Sep. 13, 2004

1,796 Number of people arrested in New York City during last week's G.O.P. Convention

641 Number of people arrested during riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago

550 Number of the detained a New York State judge ordered released last week because they had been held without arraignment for longer than 24 hours

301:1 The ratio between average CEO compensation and worker pay in 2003, up from 282:1 two years ago

$15.76 What the federal minimum wage, currently $5.15, would be if it had grown at the same rate since 1990

$18,004,319 Opening-weekend earnings for martial-arts epic Hero, starring Jet Li

2 Hero's rank by this measure for a foreign-language film, behind Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ

1,026 Average SAT score last year, out of a total of 1,600

202 Difference between the average score of whites and that of African Americans

Sources: New York Times; Chicago Public Library; New York Times; Institute for Policy Studies (2); Miramax; Hollywood Reporter; Wall Street Journal (2)