The James Logan Courier

ACTIVITIES:
Come out to Colt Court today at lunch to receive a FREE candy cane compliments of Youth Alive.

Jamba Juice will be for sale in Colt Court today for $3.50. The James Logan girls Soccer team will be selling them during both lunch periods.

By Lesley Clark
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

WASHINGTON — The exam that immigrants must pass to become U.S. citizens is being redesigned to ensure new Americans are as familiar with the concept of democracy as they are with the number of stars in the flag.

By Fermin Sierra and Nathanial Lealao, Courier Staff Writer

The James Logan Football teams commemorated the end of the football season with an awards banquet held at Logan last week. The purpose of the Thursday evening event was to congratulate and award the players who participated at every level in the football program.

The following is a press release issued by the New Haven Unified School District today:

Middle school students will have smaller classes and more learning time each day through a cooperative effort between the New Haven Unified School District and the New Haven Teachers Association.

By Carmen Shiu, Courier Entertainment Editor

Last Tuesday,, Nickelodeon's Drake and Josh star Drake Bell released his sophomore album, It's Only Time. It can easily be assumed that a teen star will create teen music, but Bell almost proved that assumption wrong to its entirety. Penning all eleven tracks, this album can be easily enjoyed by the older crowd.

By Carmen Shiu, Courier Entertainment Editor

Logan's hip hop club, Hip Hop Elements, held their annual Mayhem show last week. The four emcees and about fourteen breakers performed at this year's free showcase in the Pavilion. Although the overlapping of the lunches caused a few frowns, the outcome still wasn't so bad.


Hip Hop Elements President Jeremy Lam organized Mayhem and performed in it. Carmen Shiu/Courier Photo

By Kelley L. Carter, Greg Crawford, Brian McCollum, Mark Stryker and Martin Bandyke
Detroit Free Press
(MCT)

For the teen listener who loves hit radio: "Now That's What I Call Music! Vol. 23" (Sony). If the budding music fan on your list isn't yet equipped with an iPod — and the online song downloads that come with it — the latest volume in this pop-hits series is a surefire way to go. The 16-track CD is heavy on dance-pop (Fergie, Nelly Furtado), but includes doses of hip-hop (Chingy) and rock (Teddy Geiger). Rate it PG-14 for content.
—BMc

Apple Computer Inc. (MCT)

Top 10 albums on iTunes Music Store for Dec. 12:
1. "Wintersong," Sarah McLachlan
2. "Eminem Presents the Re-Up," Eminem
3. "James Taylor at Christmas," James Taylor
4. "A Charlie Brown Christmas," Vince Guaraldi Trio
5. "Daughtry," Daughtry
6. "Now That's What I Call Christmas 3," various artists
7. "The Sweet Escape," Gwen Stefani
8. "Dreamgirls (Music from the Motion Picture)," various artists
9. "Light Grenades," Incubus
10. "The Evolution," Ciara

For more information, please visit the iTunes Web site at www.apple.com/itunes/.
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Margaret Chase Smith (December 14, 1897–May 29, 1995) was a Republican Senator from Maine, and one of the most successful politicians in Maine history. She was the first woman to be elected to both the U.S. House and the Senate. She was also the first woman to have her name placed in nomination for the U.S. Presidency at a major party's convention (1964 Republican Convention, won by Barry Goldwater). She was a moderate Republican and might be termed a Rockefeller Republican.

Read Margaret Chase Smith's Declaration of Conscience condemning the tactics of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, free from the University of Maine's Margaret Chase Smith's Center for Public Policy.


Margaret Chase Smith