The James Logan Courier

By Jim Teeple — VOA News

Israel's prime minister on Sunday threatened "far-reaching consequences" for a Hezbollah rocket attack on the Israeli city of Haifa that left at least eight people dead and more than 20 others wounded. The attack raised the death toll in Israel to more than 20, while more than 100 people have died in Lebanon in Israeli strikes.


Peace activists gathered in front of the Israeli Ministry of Defense to protest against the ongoing hostilities. (Photo — www.gush-shalom.org)

By Shashank Bengali
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

KASSAB, Sudan _ Don't ask Ibrahim Rahma about the peace agreement for Darfur. Where he sits, in this camp where thousands displaced by the war in western Sudan now live in tumbledown wooden shacks, there is no peace.


Soldiers of the rebel Sudan Liberation Army in Darfur, Sudan, in the rebel-held village of Hashaba. A split between rebel groups threatens a two-month-old peace agreement that international diplomats hoped would end the three-year war in Darfur, which has killed some 200,000 people. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)

Ethel Barrymore (August 15, 1879 – June 18, 1959) was an Academy Award-winning American actress and a member of the famous Barrymore family. She was born Ethel Mae Blythe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the second child of the actors Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Drew. She spent her childhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and attended Catholic schools while there.
She was the sister of actors John Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore, the aunt of actor John Drew Barrymore, and the grand-aunt of actress/producer Drew Barrymore.

Read Memories, Ethel Barrymore's 1955 memoir, free from the Internet Archive.


Ethel Barrymore