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Escalante was a teacher in La Paz before he emigrated to the U.S. and had to study English at night for years to get his California teaching credentials.
At first, he was discouraged by Garfield’s “culture of low expectations, gang activity and administrative apathy,” Miller said.
Gradually, he overhauled the school’s math curriculum, requiring all students to take algebra while enabling those who were previously considered unteachable to master math and pass the Advanced Placement calculus test. He believed in his students and built their confidence.
Escalante left Garfield in 1991, taught at schools in Sacramento and retired to Bolivia in 2001.
June Havoc, actress
immortalized in ‘Gypsy’
June Havoc, an actress and former child vaudeville star whose early life with her sister – legendary burlesque stripper Gypsy Rose Lee – and their ambitious stage mother was portrayed in the Broadway musical “Gypsy,” has died. She was 97.

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And it is with that credo, deputy district attorney Sharon Carney said, that Turner engaged in an illegal business of kidnapping teenage prostitutes off the streets of Oakland and taking them to Stockton, where he forced them to work as his prostitutes.
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They said they were working as prostitutes when Turner drove up pretending to be a customer. After they got into the car, they said, he told them they were now his property and he drove them to Stockton.
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If they didn’t have the money, Carney said, Turner said he would force the girls to work as prostitutes for him.
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Turner’s defense attorney, Spencer Strellis, admitted his client “might not be someone you want to take home for dinner” but urged the jury to look beyond his client’s appearance and focus on the facts of the case. Those facts, Strellis said, are based on the testimony of two “ladies” who admitted engaging in prostitution.

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And it is with that credo, Deputy District Attorney Sharon Carney said, that Turner engaged in an illegal business of kidnapping teenage prostitutes off the streets of Oakland and taking them to Stockton, where he forced them to work as his prostitutes.
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They said they were working as prostitutes when Turner drove up pretending to be a customer. After they got into the car, they said, he told them they were now his property and he drove them to Stockton.
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If they didn’t have the money, Carney said, Turner said he would force the girls to work as prostitutes for him.
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Turner’s defense attorney, Spencer Strellis, admitted his client “might not be someone you want to take home for dinner” but urged the jury to look beyond his client’s appearance and focus on the facts of the case. Those facts, Strellis said, are based on the testimony of two “ladies” who admitted engaging in prostitution.

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In an eclectic memorial service for an eclectic artist, friends and family members gathered in the patio of Kern’s favorite North Sacramento bar, The Bolt, right next to the makeshift studio where he created his art.
Kern, who died of leukemia this month just short of his 50th birthday, collected electrical cable, window screens, chipped glass and other discarded items from junkyards and trash bins. In his dilapidated studio, using few tools other than his hands, he recycled the materials into pieces that found their way into shops and galleries throughout Northern California.
“He lived life on his terms,” said his best friend, Paul Watwood. Kern shunned material things, and was content to make just enough money to survive on a street frequented by prostitutes and drug dealers. “He was completely nonjudgmental,” Watwood said.

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his or her 80s who just wants occasional relief from nausea and pain — has no access to this medicine.
Perhaps the problems were intended by those who wrote the bill. Now they argue that all the headaches would disappear if the drug was just legal.
Legalization proponents delivered more than 400,000 signatures to Sacramento, and this week the secretary of state announced the question of legalization will go before voters in November.
The election should be close. Attitudes toward marijuana are more permissive these days, and proponents of legalization can argue that this would be a financial boon for the state. They say if marijuana is regulated and the sales are taxed, it could add $1 billion or more annually to the state. Yes, so would prostitution, state-owned casinos and legalized sports betting, but nobody’s rushing to do that. It can’t be all about the money.

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All three major-party candidates have already publicly expressed their unwillingness to back the legalization of marijuana, explains the Sacramento Bee: –Jerry Brown (D): “I’ve already indicated that that’s not a provision I am likely to support. I have been on the side of law enforcement for a long time, and you can be sure that we will be together on this November ballot.”
–Meg Whitman (R): She is “absolutely against legalizing marijuana for any reason. … She believes we have enough challenges in our society without heading down the path of drug legalization,” says a spokesperson.
–Steve Poizner (R): He “feels we need an across-the-board tax cut to reignite our state’s economy, not an attempt to smoke our way out of the budget deficit,” notes a rep.
Who’s left? Well, that would be Prince Frederic von Anhalt (aka Mr. Zsa Zsa Gabor), for whom legalizing marijuana (and prostitution) are at the core of his campaign: “Marijuana is a big industry already. Let’s legalize it, tax it, make some money and put less people in jail.”

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The drug gangs are bad guys but they are also nothing new since they act much like the gangs of prohibition. What ending prohibition did was not end the mob but shrink their power and influence as well as pull the public back from dabbling in illegality as a national past time which gives them less reason to observe other laws.
The mob also sold children(and still does) as well as all other avenues of prostitution and extortion(since the mob used prostitution to pull you in and extortion to control you) but they actually had more control and funding prior to the end of prohibition(see JFK’s daddy). In fact the mobs influence did not fully gain steam again until the late 60’s and later the 70’s drug culture and the prohibition on them began to re-empower them(note it was another prohibition or many of them that caused the upsurge). Their influenced has waned but only because they did not have as effective an organisation for this particular trade as did new drug gangs from other immigrant cultures.

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LONDON (AP) – Britain will expel an Israeli diplomat on Tuesday to rebuke Israel for its alleged use of forged British passports in the assassination of a Hamas operative in a suspected Mossad hit, a U.K. government official said. Foreign Secretary David Miliband was scheduled to address Parliament over the issue, following an investigation into the use of 12 fake U.K. passports in the incident.
ACORN disbanding because of money woes, scandal
CHICAGO (AP) – The once mighty community activist group ACORN announced Monday it is folding amid falling revenues – six months after video footage emerged showing some of its workers giving tax tips to conservative activists posing as a pimp and prostitute. “It’s really declining revenue in the face of a series of attacks from partisan operatives and right-wing activists that have taken away our ability to raise the resources we need,” ACORN spokesman Kevin Whelan said.

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Among them were Iraq war veterans, people with disabilities, ex-prostitutes, students who are the first in their family to attend college and thousands more who believe their future depends on a public education system that is crumbling beneath them for lack of funding.
“We fought for our country, but when we get back here, we have to continue fighting,” said Jordan Towers, 26, one of at least 26,000 returning veterans who are depending on California’s two-year colleges to retrain them for the workforce.
A Marine veteran and student at City College of San Francisco, Towers feels the impact of deep budget cuts personally. Reduced staffing at the college means it takes months for GI benefits to reach him – so long that he had to sell his television set and computer keyboard last semester to pay his rent.
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He wasn’t there, but the students told his aide, Vanessa Lugo, that without college, recovered addicts, prostitutes and hustlers would still be on the street.

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Dems drop ‘deem and pass’ plan
Wire servicesLocal News – March 21, 2010 – 9:57am
WASHINGTON With tea party demonstrators rallying outside to protest the legislation, the House Rules Committee chaired by Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-Fairport, dropped a controversial plan that would have “deemed” Senate-approved health care legislation passed as part of a resolution setting rules of debate. The maneuver had been seen as a way to allow Democrats to avoid voting on the bill.
During the debate, Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, pleaded with Slaughter to allow separate votes on the underlying Senate bill and the fixes.
“This process corrupts and prostitutes the system,” he said.
Slaughter chastised Barton, a
leader on health care, and said his party had “opted out” of cooperating on the legislation. “We have to get on with it,” she said.

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