The James Logan Courier

By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer

Forty children who weren’t quite old enough to attend kindergarten when the 2007-08 school year began will start school Monday when the New Haven Unified School District launches a mid-year, full-day kindergarten pilot program.

“We are very excited to be able to offer this kind of program to parents of children who were born just a little too late to start kindergarten last fall,” Superintendent Dr. Pat Jaurequi said. “We have put together a quality program that will give these children a solid foundation when they start regular kindergarten next year.”

Reviewed by Howard Yang, Courier Staff Writer

Ever since the release of the infamous title-less “1-18-08” movie trailer attached to Transformers last summer, “Lost” producer J.J. Abrams has managed to keep countless fans glued to their computer screens to search for the next clue within an abundance of viral marketing websites, video blogs, and Myspace pages. Cloverfield, as this movie had turned out to be titled, tells the tale of a group of friends trying to survive a hellish night in Manhattan as a mysterious giant creature attacks the city. The film is directed by Matt Reaves and stars Michael Stahl-David as Rob Hawkins and Odette Yustman as Beth Mcintyre.

By Bethany Stringer, Courier Publications Editor

For one of the first comedies of the year, 27 Dresses neither succeeds nor fails. It simply is. Light-hearted and cute, it is a fun treat for women and is the bane of existence for men dragged along by said women.

The story is rather simple. Jane seems destined to be a perpetual bridesmaid. In love with her boss, who appreciates her hard work but is blind to her avid devotion, she lives vicariously through her friends as she plans their various weddings.

By Samuel Jue, Courier Sports Editor

It was not pretty for American, but they managed to rally for a pair of goals in the second half to steal a 2-1 win at Fremont Tuesday night.

Logan jumped out in front early off a goal from Jessica Panuco assisted by Cassandra Deleon. All was going right for the Lady Colts as they maintained the 1-0 lead going into the locker room.

But the second half was a different story.

Reviewed by Howard Yang, Courier Staff Writer

Despite its relatively weak box office record, Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood was one of this year's most critically acclaimed films and was nominated for 8 Oscars.

The film's plot is an adaptation of Upton Sinclair's novel Oil! and revolves around Daniel Planview (Daniel Day Lewis), a miner who strikes it rich in the oil business and is gradually consumed by greed as he begins to place his ambitions above everything, his son, his community, and his morality.

From wikipedia:
Joseph-Louis, comte de Lagrange, born Giuseppe Lodovico Lagrangia (January 25, 1736 Turin, Kingdom of Sardinia - April 10, 1813 Paris) was an Italian / French mathematician and astronomer who made important contributions to all fields of analysis and number theory and to classical and celestial mechanics as arguably the greatest mathematician of the 18th century. It is said that he was able to write out his papers complete without a single correction required. Before the age of 20 he was professor of geometry at the royal artillery school at Turin. By his mid-twenties he was recognized as one of the greatest living mathematicians because of his papers on wave propagation and the maxima and minima of curves. His greatest work, Mécanique Analytique (Analytical Mechanics) (4. ed., 2 vols. Paris: Gauthier-Villars et fils, 1888-89. First Edition: 1788), was a mathematical masterpiece and the basis for all later work in this field. On the recommendation of Euler and D'Alembert, Lagrange succeeded the former as the director of mathematics at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin. Under the First French Empire, Lagrange was made both a senator and a count; he is buried in the Panthéon.