[Fred Nerks]

The Hotel Theresa was a vibrant center of black life in Harlem, New York City, in the mid-20th century.

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Louis Armstrong, Sugar Ray Robinson, Lena Horne, Josephine Baker, Dorothy Dandridge, Duke Ellington, Muhammad Ali, Dinah Washington, Ray Charles, Little Richard, and Jimi Hendrix all stayed in the Hotel or lived there for a time, as did Fidel Castro, while in New York for the 1960 opening session of the United Nations, after storming out of the Hotel Shelburne because of that hotel manager's "unacceptable cash" demands.[1] Castro's entourage rented 80 rooms at the Thersa for $800 per day.[2]

The hotel profited from the refusal of prestigious hotels elsewhere in the city to accept black guests. As a result, black businessmen, performers, and athletes were thrown under the same roof.

After leaving the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X maintained his competing Organization of Afro-American Unity at the hotel and hosted meetings there. He met Cassius Clay in the hotel on various occasions.

Bill Clinton's commerce secretary, Ron Brown, grew up in the hotel, where his father worked as manager. U.S. Congressman Charles Rangel (D-Harlem) once worked there as a desk clerk.

The hotel may have enjoyed its greatest prominence in 1960. Nikita Khruschev visited New York in that year, during the week when Castro was staying in Harlem, and came to meet him in the hotel. Also, in October 1960, John F. Kennedy campaigned for the presidency at the hotel, along with Eleanor Roosevelt and other powerful figures in the Democratic Party.

[LucyT]

Speaking of Louis Armstrong; off topic: lovely music, great photography.

What a Wonderful World

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5IIXeR5OUI

[STARWISE]

Atty. Frederic Woocher

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FREDRIC D. WOOCHER entered private practice after serving two years as Special Counsel to California Attorney General John Van de Kamp, whom he represented and advised on government ethics, environmental law, and consumer-protection issues, including implementation of Proposition 103.

Prior to his government service, Mr. Woocher spent seven years with the Center for Law in the Public Interest, litigating a broad range of public interest issues involving land-use, environmental law, hazardous substances regulation, First Amendment protection, and civil rights cases.

He is an acknowledged authority on the initiative and referendum process and on campaign financing issues.

Mr. Woocher has successfully argued before both the U.S. and California Supreme Courts as well as other appellate and trial courts. He served as Chair of the State Bar’s Committee on Human Rights, as a member of the State Bar Committee on the Environment, and as a member of the Los Angeles County Judicial Evaluations Committee.

He is a graduate of Yale University (A.B.) and Stanford (Ph.D., J.D.), and was President of the Stanford Law Review. Mr. Woocher was law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., and Chief Judge David L. Bazelon of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

In May 1999, Mr. Woocher was nominated by President Clinton (((after recommendation from Barbara Boxer))) to serve as United States District Court Judge for the Central District of California, but the nomination expired when the Senate adjourned in December 2000 without having taken action to confirm his nomination.

Woocher: "Please be advised, in particular, that in the event we are forced to file a motion to quash and we prevail in that motion, we will seek the full measure of monetary sanctions provided for in the Code of Civil Procedures."

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The Judge in Keyes v Bowen: Judge Michael P. Kenny

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2/13/2009

Reparations By Another Name

Obama is close to creating an Office of Urban Policy to allocate funds to urban areas (((ACORN))) for a range of initiatives, including job training and the creation of new jobs.

Obama's urban renewal plan -- from neighborhoods to downtown corridors -- calls for creating more opportunities for minority businesses, establishing more affordable public transportation, raising the minimum wage, ending tax breaks for businesses that send jobs overseas, providing additional funding for community policing and ending racial profiling.

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Granny over here you know more of this in your head that I can find. That middle name Hussein just keeps nagging me.

Early in 1961, the CIA sought the services of a mobster from Chicago to kill the Cuban revolutionary. At a secret meeting in Miami, they furnished him with tiny gelatine capsules filled with botulinum toxin. The gangster, John Rosselli, was
instructed to drop the capsules in Mr Castro’s food, with the warning they wouldn’t work in “boiling soup”. The plan failed, of course, partly because Mr Castro suddenly stopped frequenting the restaurant that Rosselli had cased.

There were plenty of other, equally comical, plots hatched in the corridors of the agency. Famously, one proposed lacing one of Castro’s cigars with a hallucinogenic similar to LSD, in the hope that he would then give a speech under its effects and be revealed as a ranting madman. Someone else in the agency thought of dusting his shoes with thallium to make his beard fall out. There was also the idea of infecting his diving suit with a fungus to cause a chronic skin disease.

It was also in 1961 and in Cuba that the CIA suffered possibly its most humiliating disaster ever. That was the CIA-led Bay of Pigs mission: designed to topple Mr Castro, it foundered almost as soon as the brigade of anti-revolutionary fighters tried to come ashore. Despite attempts at
secrecy, Mr Castro apparently had ample warning to respond. When it was over, 114 members of the invading force were killed and 1,189 more were taken prisoner.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/gunning-for-saddam—but-is-the-cia-capable-of-triggering-his-demise-746674.html