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	Joseph Lis

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10-3-2007 9:09 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c2be3872-68e9-4808-8570-07fdf72cb3a6/D624E916-0FE3-4B22-B07B-7027739339CE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/03/books/03grimes.html?_r=1&ref=books&oref=slogin" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/03/books/03grimes.html?_r=1&ref=books&oref=slogin" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/03/books/03grimes.html?_r=1&ref=books&oref=slogin"><P>Among the immigrant millions entering New York Harbor in the 1880s was a certain Joseph Lis, a one-man advertisement for strict border control. Lis, who entered New York under the pseudonym Joseph Silver, yearned to be free — free to wheel and deal in the white slave trade, operate brothels and indulge in the occasional smash-and-grab robbery when the mood was upon him. Already unwelcome in Britain, where he practiced his arts in the East End of London, he would, in the course of a criminal spree lasting nearly four decades, sow mayhem on four continents before disappearing from the historical record in the final days of the First World War.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/03/books/03grimes.html?_r=1&ref=books&oref=slogin"> In “The Fox and the Flies,” Charles van  Onselen, a South African historian, stalks Lis every step of the way. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D624E916-0FE3-4B22-B07B-7027739339CE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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