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Pablo Alvarado todav?a recuerda el terror que sinti? hace 13 a?os en Woodland Hills, California, cuando, a?n siendo un joven indocumentado salvadore?o, cinco autos de polic?a con sirenas y luces encendidas lo detuvieron porque los nerviosos residentes de la zona pensaron que ?l era un criminal. Eventualmente Alvarado los convenci? de que estaba all? en busca de un trabajo ofrecido por uno de los vecinos. "Todos los d?as los trabajadores se ven obligados a pasar por cosas como ?stas y peores", dice Alvarado. Como coordinador de la National Day Laborer Organizing Network durante los ?ltimos tres a?os, Alvarado...
...shill for the political right, publicly outed Wilson's wife Plame. That was the Administration's first parry to deflect public attention. And with the continuing diversion of public attention from the central issue of deception, the Administration is having things just the way it wants. Gregory J. Ryan Woodland Hills, California, U.S. Why even pose the question of whether Rove will pay the price for his role in the Plame debacle? Rove is a political strategist who knows precisely what to say - or not to say - to keep himself out of hot water. He knew exactly what...
GREGORY J. RYAN - Woodland Hills, Calif...
DIED. Gale Sondergaard, 86, character actress of stage and screen who specialized in sleekly villainous roles, most memorably as the sinister Spider Woman in two movies (1944 and '46), and who won a supporting-actress Oscar for Anthony Adverse (1936); in Woodland Hills, Calif...
...Lincoln Theodore Perry (stage name: Stepin Fetchit), 83, black comedian who, adopting the name of a horse he had won money on, played a gentle, shuffling, eye-rolling subservient in movies of the 1920s and '30s (Show Boat, Stand Up and Cheer); of congestive heart failure and pneumonia; in Woodland Hills, Calif. When a 1968 TV documentary accused Stepin Fetchit of popularizing the stereotype of the lazy Negro, Perry brought an unsuccessful $3 million defamation suit. "I had to defy a law that said Negroes were supposed to be inferior," he said. "I was a star--the first Negro movie...