The James Logan Courier

By Gurpreet Basin, Courier Staff Writer

This year's freshman class skit was based around a "Candyland" theme with a little bit of a twist in it. Despite the freshman being first-timers at something like this event, some observers thought the freshman did an amazing job and they deserve to be recognized.

"I thought the did pretty well for freshman," said Camille Casal, a sophomore who attended the fourth-lunch performance. She said she was particularly impressed with the acting by the freshmen in the skit. Overall, she said, "it was pretty funny."

MISCELLANEOUS

Attention Spanish Speakers: Tutoring is available in multiple subjects, in Spanish, Tuesdays and Thursdays after school in Room 417.

Attention AP Students: There are only 5 more days left to sign up for the AP test. If you are in an AP class and want to take the AP test, the deadline to register for a test is March 28 – no exceptions! The registration form is on the Logan website, under Academic Info link on the left. Please submit completed forms with your payment to Ms. Muse in the Main Office.

By Yari Nieves-Rivera, Courier Book Editor

Juliet by Anne Fortier is a very twisted turn on the romantic tale of Romeo and Juliet. Set in modern times, Julie and her sister, Janice, have never been on good terms. When the woman who raised them (their great-aunt), dies of unforeseen circumstances, she leaves Janice all of the estate and she leaves Julie nothing but a passport with her ‘real name’ on it, a bank deposit key, and a story about a great treasure meant for her. These things would lead her to Italy, (where her mother once lived) and would unravel not only the truth about her past, but about what truly happened to her mother and what was meant for her and her sister to find out.

At first, Julie is unsure of what to do with this new information. With encouragement from the housekeeper and father-like figure, Umberto, Julie decides to follow her Aunt’s last wishes and go to Italy.

By Tim Johnson
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

MEXICO CITY — Mexico has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the world. If any of the nation's 112 million citizens want to buy firearms, there's only one store where they can do it legally. It's on a sprawling military base and run by the army.

That, however, hasn't stopped Mexicans from acquiring firearms. The country is awash in illegal guns, many of them assault weapons in the hands of merciless criminal gangs. President Felipe Calderon says authorities have seized more than 140,000 weapons since he came to office in late 2006. Many of them, Mexican officials assert, were purchased in the United States.

By Lorraine Ali
Los Angeles Times (MCT)

A yearning for home, wherever that may be, is one of many themes that the late New York Times journalist Anthony Shadid so deftly touches on in "House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East."

Shadid, a Lebanese-American born and raised in Oklahoma City, takes leave from his job as a Middle East war reporter in 2007 to rebuild the abandoned and war-ravaged home of his great grandfather in the small Lebanese town of Marjayoun.

But even before he takes on the project, Shadid's idea of the Middle East as an ancestral home, a place that yields answers to personal and family questions, is challenged by what he finds during his years covering bloody conflicts in Israel (where he was shot in the shoulder by an Israeli sniper while reporting from the West Bank for the Boston Globe), Libya (where he was taken prisoner last year and beaten with three other journalists by Moammar Gadhafi's forces), and Iraq. Syria was Shadid's last assignment, and it was there he lost his life at 43 in February, apparently from an asthma attack.

From wikipedia:
Rose Stone (or Rosie Stone) (born Rosemary Stewart, March 21, 1945, in Vallejo, California) is an African-American singer and keyboardist. She is best known as one of the lead singers in Sly & the Family Stone, a popular psychedelic soul/funk band founded by her brothers, Sly Stone and Freddie Stone. She often wore a platinum-colored wig while performing with the band, and was noted for her strong vocals.

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