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Similarly, S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, writes in an e-mail message that his organization has for years championed the goal of increasing minority participation in the sciences...
...mass frenzy and a coolly purposeful instrument of white supremacy, you could send the message by postcard. Scores of mob murders were caught on film by newspapers, by studio photographers who set up at the scene and by onlookers who brought along a camera. Fifteen years ago, James Allen, an Atlanta antiques dealer, was inspecting an old desk. In one of the drawers, he came across a postcard of the 1915 lynching of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory supervisor accused on wobbly evidence of murdering a teenage girl in Atlanta. Some years later, Allen was offered a 1911 picture...
...took a number of years to decide to collect pictures like this," says Allen. "They're too painful to look at. But once you've seen these, you can't talk about race without factoring in the reality of what African Americans really went through." With his companion John Littlefield, Allen eventually assembled a collection of more than 130 lynching photographs, which are now on loan to Emory University in Atlanta. Earlier this year, during the first full public showing of the collection, lines formed every day outside the Roth Horowitz gallery in New York City. (The pictures...
...jongg 2. Olympic Airways founder, in headlines 3. Fenway great's nickname 4. "Who's on first?" team member 5. Mickey's creator 6. Garth Brooks' Touch 'Em __ Foundation 7. Allen W. Dulles once headed it 8. Significant person? 9. Like Moses, Pope saw the Promised Land from here 10. Essay page 11. Abdoulaye __, who has been elected Senegal's President 16. "That feels good!" 20. Meth. or Luth. 21. Sudan's rebel gp. 22. Where the Eagle landed 23. They're backing 15-Across 24. Wing: prefix 25. They expect to boost output 27. Venetian blind...
...contact lens and that of a person winking to flirt. These distinctions don't appear as blobs in a brain scan. They arise from the microcircuitry of the living human brain, and most people don't want to donate their brains to science until they're dead. (As Woody Allen said, "It's my second-favorite organ.") For a long time to come, the content of our thoughts may be the province of psychologists studying the brain's software, rather than neurobiologists studying its hardware...