The James Logan Courier

By Jeff Long and Carolyn Starks
Chicago Tribune (MCT)

CHICAGO — Told to express emotion for a creative writing class, high school senior Allen Lee penned an essay so disturbing to his teacher, school administrators and police that he was charged with disorderly conduct, officials said Wednesday.

Lee, 18, a straight-A student at Cary-Grove High School in Cary, Ill., was arrested Tuesday near his home and charged with the misdemeanor for an essay police described as violently disturbing but not directed toward any specific person or location.

By Renee Schoof
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

WASHINGTON — Congress concluded round one of its historic showdown with President Bush on Thursday with the Senate's passage of legislation that requires that troops start coming home by Oct. 1.

Maneuvering over the next round was already under way.

The 51-46 approval, like the close vote in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, was far short of the two-thirds majority needed to override the veto that Bush has promised. Democrats now will try to rewrite the $124 billion spending bill, which provides the money Bush requested for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan plus extra military funding.

By Diamond Floyd, Courier Staff Writer


Reign Over Me is the awesome drama starring Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Liv Tyler. The movie had met and even exceeded many of my expectations. Adam Sandler was a rounded and skillfully developed character. It was refreshing to see Sandler play an actual character in a movie, and not just an angry, babbling bafoon. Don Cheadle delivers a sensational performance yet again, brilliantly following his amazing performances from Crash and Hotel Rwanda.

Sandler and Cheadle play Charlie Fineman and Alan Johnson, two former college roommates that pick up their friendship by chance years after parting ways. Both formerly in dental study, Johnson continues on to becoming a successful dentist, a loving husband and a caring father.

By Iona Childers, Courier Food Editor
Photos by Iona C./Yelp.com

Mayflower Seafood Restaurant
34348 Alvarado Niles Rd.
(between Decoto Rd & Meyers Dr)
Union City, CA 94587
(510) 489-8386


Being a senior during the week of STAR testing might be good, but being a senior with late arrival during the week of STAR testing, is even better! Taking full advantage of having late arrival on Tuesday (when second period started at 1:04 p.m.), I went with fellow Courier staff writer, Jacqueline Truong, and two other senior friends, to the Union City Mayflower (located near the Marina supermarket).

From Spartacus Educational:

Mary Wollstonecraft, the daughter of a handkerchief weaver, was born in Spitalfields, London in 1759. The family moved a great deal during Mary's childhood and she lived for periods at Epping, Barking, Beverley, Hoxton, Walworth and Laugharne in Wales.

Read Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft, one of four of her works available free from Project Gutenberg.