The James Logan Courier

By Anne Chen, Editor-in-Chief

San Francisco celebrated it's 21st annual AIDS Walk on July 15th. The walk has proven to be California's largest AIDS fund raising event. People from all corners of the Bay Area, including James Logan High School, joined together to help prevent the spread of AIDS. The 25,000 participants this year succeeded in raising $4,503,716 compared to last year's $4,135,925. It did not matter whether you were gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual,or straight- everyone was welcome to keep the battle against AIDS alive.

By Margaret Talev and Renee Schoof
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

WASHINGTON — Cots for senators to nap on were trucked in. Anti-war veterans planned to pack the Senate gallery after dark. And the leadership of the self-styled "world's greatest deliberative body" gave senators round-the-clock assignments so that the chamber would always be manned.

"I'm going to be presiding at 4 a.m.!" said freshman Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.

Democrats moved ahead Tuesday with the Senate's first official all-nighter in four years, hoping that the publicity would make Republicans look extra bad for using their procedural powers to block a vote on an amendment forcing troop withdrawals from Iraq.

From wikipedia:Margaret Tobin Brown (July 18, 1867 – October 26, 1932), more widely known as Maggie Brown or Molly Brown was an American socialite, philanthropist, and activist who became famous as one of the survivors of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. She became known after her death as The Unsinkable Molly Brown, although she was never called Molly during her life.

Early life and family
Margaret Tobin was born in Hannibal, Missouri, one of six children of Irish immigrants. At 19, she moved to Leadville, Colorado, with her sister, obtaining a job in a department store. It was here she met and married James Joseph Brown (J.J.), an enterprising, self-educated man, in 1886. Brown had always planned on marrying a rich man but she married J.J. for love. She said, "I wanted a rich man, but I loved Jim Brown. I thought about how I wanted comfort for my father and how I had determined to stay single until himself who could give to the tired old man the things I longed for him. Jim was as poor as we were, and had no better chance in life. I struggled hard with myself in those days. I loved Jim, but he was poor. Finally, I decided that I'd be better off with a poor man whom I loved than with a wealthy one whose money had attracted me. So I married Jim Brown."

Learn more about Margaret Brown, free from encyclopedia-titanica.org.