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...Staff writer Joseph M. Tartakoff can be reached at tartakof@fas.harvard.edu...
Abigail K. Joseph ’04 spent two summers in England viewing collections of Victorian pornography for her thesis entitled, “Pornomania: Sex and Bibliography in Victorian England...
Hanging prominently in the foyer of Joseph Elliott's home in Summerton, S.C., is a portrait of the Confederate Army general, Robert E. Lee. Nearby, however, Elliott just as proudly displays newspaper clippings of his late great-uncle, a real-life Atticus Finch who defended blacks in the era of Jim Crow. Elliott, 64, has struggled a lifetime to reconcile these mixed images of the South. But one picture noticeably absent from his gallery is that of his late grandfather, R.M. Elliott, a wealthy sawmill owner and former Summerton school-board chairman who, in the 1940s, refused to provide...
...because they fear that the biracial group he recently helped create, the Summerton Revitalization Corporation, wants to bigfoot on what they insist should be a black-led local commemoration of the Brown anniversary. "Mr. Elliott is very sincere," says Joe De Laine Jr., 71, son of the late Rev. Joseph De Laine, who led the fight to get Briggs v. Elliott heard in court but then had to flee South Carolina after Ku Klux Klansmen attacked his house. "But we [blacks] can't stand there muted for this commemoration, listening to others tell us what we and our families...
...DIED. JOSEPH CULLMAN, 92, who as CEO of Philip Morris from 1957 to '78 plowed through rising concerns about smoking to turn the tobacco company into one of the largest U.S. corporations; in New York City...