The James Logan Courier

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Congratulations to the Varsity Wrestling Team for winning the Western Invitational in Modesto. The team also placed eleventh out of 95 teams at the Sierra Nevada Classic over the Christmas break.

Treat yourself to a toasty bag of popcorn. The popcorn stand is located just outside the Career Center in Colt Court. Monday, Wednesday & Friday during 4th period. A fun bag of popcorn is just 50 cents.

Yearbooks are still on sale. Buy yours in Room 44 after school for $90. Hurry! Supplies are limited.

Saturday School is open this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Take advantage of a place to get some tutoring, computers, a place to work with peers, and a welcome atmosphere too. Enter by carpeted hallway near the Media Center to Rooms 77 and 78.

By Nataniel Lazaga, Courier Staff Writer

I collected all the watches recently sold with McDonalds' girls' Happy Meals. The characters featured on the watches were from Sanrio, a Japanese company that sells popular Japanese items, to honor the company's 50th anniversary. There were seven different characters feature on the watches: Hello Kitty, Keroppi, My Melody, Badtz-Maru, Chococat and Sugar Bunnies. It took me about a week to get all of them because I had an interest in the characters and wanted me to get them all.

By Arthel Cargill, Courier Staff Writer

In the riveting story Glass, author Ellen Hopkins picks up where she left off in the novel's prequel, Crank, and pulls the reader into the world of addiction and the battle between right and wrong, into the world of the monster.

In Crank, Kristina Georgia Snow (or "Bree") goes to visit her father in Albuquerque. She meets a boy who introduces her to "the monster", crank (amphetamine, colloquially known as "speed"). Hopkins shows the reader Kristina's struggle and the ultimate fall from grace that she experiences, in the form of an exciting novel.

By Faiza Elmasry, VOA News

Gregory Levey, author of 'How To Make Peace In The Middle East In Six Months Or Less Without Leaving Your Apartment,' decided to act as a freelance diplomat and solve the Middle East conflict.

Gregory Levey, author of 'How To Make Peace In The Middle East In Six Months Or Less Without Leaving Your Apartment,' decided to act as a freelance diplomat and solve the Middle East conflict.

The territorial conflict between the Jewish state of Israel and the region's mostly Arab Palestinians has raged for generations, frustrating mediators and diplomats. How could one person make a positive difference? Gregory Levey tried, and titled the book about his effort, "How To Make Peace In The Middle East In Six Months Or Less Without Leaving Your Apartment."

Gregory Levey is an unlikely peace-maker. The Canadian Jew - now a professor of communication at Toronto's Ryerson University - was a law student with no experience in diplomacy when he was hired in 2005 to write speeches for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. He says the year he spent in the Middle East was a transforming experience.

From wikipedia:
Herbert Bayard Swope (January 5, 1882 - June 20, 1958) was a U.S. editor and journalist. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he was the younger brother of businessman Gerard Swope.

Swope spent most of his career at the New York World newspaper.

He was the first recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Reporting in 1917 for a series of articles that year entitled "Inside the German Empire" The articles formed the basis for a book released in 1917 entitled Inside The German Empire: In The Third Year Of The War, which he wrote with James W. Gerard.

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