The James Logan Courier

Portugal struck two early and held on to beat Mexico in their final Group D match in Gelsenkirchen, Wednesday.

Ivory Coast beats Serbia and Montenegro 3-2 in Group C

Argentina and Netherlands play 0-0 stalemate in Group C

Angola draw 1-1 with Iran in Group D

By Gary Thomas
VOA News

A cable from the U.S. ambassador in Iraq to the State Department says Iraqis employed at the American Embassy in Baghdad live in fear that they will be unmasked as working for Americans.  The message was leaked to the Washington Post newspaper.  The newspaper says the cable is at odds with the more upbeat public assessments by administration officials.


U.S. forces secure an Iraq street after an improvised explosive device detonated in Baghdad earlier this year. Photo by Air Force Staff Sgt. Reynaldo Ramon

American writer of poetry and stories, Celia Thaxter was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on 29 June 1835 and grew up in the Isles of Shoals, first on White Island, where her father, Thomas Laighton, was lighthouse keeper, and then on Smuttynose and Appledore Islands. When she was sixteen, she married Levi Thaxter and moved to the mainland. Her life with Levi was not harmonious and she missed her islands, and so after 10 years away, she moved back to Appledore Island. Her first published poem, Landlocked, was written during this time on the mainland.

Read Celia Thaxter''s An Island Garden, free from the University of Pennsylvania


Celia Thaxter in Her Garden, 1892, by Childe Hassam; Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC