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...local license has been a godsend to retired farmer Clair Leo Maguire, 74, of Danbury, Iowa, a town of 450. He loves driving to the restaurant, the newsstand and the post office, and he never goes outside his limits. "It's a pleasure to drive," he says, "but the farthest I go is five blocks to town--all paved streets...
Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies Werner Sollors teaches courses on American and African American literature, while Bernbaum Professor of English and American Literature and Language Leo Damrosch teaches versions of his Harvard courses, Literature and Arts A-72, “The Enlightenment Invention of the Modern Self,” and English 185, “Wit and Humor...
...less controversial aspects of genetic genealogy is its ability to help people fill in gaps in their family tree. Leo Little, a retired engineer in Austin, Texas, had used historical records to trace his lineage back to his great-great-grandfather Thomas Little, who was born in Alabama in 1816. Then, he says, "I hit a brick wall. I knew my Littles were from the South, but there were a lot of Littles from the South, and it was impossible to sort out." After he took a DNA test from Family Tree DNA, he began leading one of the company...
...year-old girl, anti-Semitic crowds outside the steamy courtroom in Atlanta chanted, "Hang the Jew." After the Governor courageously commuted his sentence from death to life imprisonment, he was kidnaped from his jail cell and lynched. For more than 70 years, defenders of the frail, scholarly Leo Frank have fought to reverse the verdict against him as unjust and bigoted. Last week Frank was finally given a belated measure of justice when a Georgia board awarded him a posthumous pardon...
...three years later married him a week after his divorce. During their twelve-year marriage the pair embarked upon a style of high living to which even he had been previously unaccustomed. Together they created a $30 million, 140-acre homestead in Princeton, N.J., called Jasna Polana after Leo Tolstoy's Russian estate, though what Tolstoy would have thought of its air-conditioned doghouse is hard to say. Even before the bequest that may make her one of the world's wealthiest women, she cut a swath through auction houses, and recently spent a staggering $4.8 million for a drawing...