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They used to call it Black Broadway: the stretch of U Street in northwest Washington where the likes of Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong and John Coltrane performed nightly. Then, in the 1960s, the neighborhood fell victim to urban blight as riots burned down much of the commercial district and affluent blacks moved to the suburbs. But these days efforts by local families to revive the area are taking hold. The result is a lively mix of recharged African-American culture and hip new shops and restaurants--less than 10 minutes from the National Mall...
...Fulton Armstrong, then head of the Latin American division at the CIA's National Intelligence Council, told the committee in private that he was subjected to similar mistreatment by Bolton after he raised objections to the contents of the Cuba speech. Bolton denies pushing to get anyone fired, and his supporters point out that neither Westermann nor Armstrong lost his job. Bolton testified that he did ask to have Armstrong reassigned because he had "lost confidence" in him, although he never worked with him or even...
...RETIRING. LANCE ARMSTRONG, 33, six-time Tour de France winner; after this year's Tour ends in July. Armstrong, who overcame testicular cancer, told reporters covering the Tour de Georgia, probably his last U.S. event, that he missed his three children and his younger, fitter body, saying: "It's not an old man's race...
Retiring. Lance Armstrong, 33, six-time Tour de France winner; after this year's Tour ends in July. Armstrong, who overcame testicular cancer in the late 1990s, told reporters covering the Tour de Georgia, probably his last U.S. event, that he missed his three children and his younger, fitter body. "It's not an old man's race," he said...
Although his shift is over, Armstrong says he doesn’t mind making one last stop...