The James Logan Courier

By Ron Hutcheson, Marisa Taylor and Margaret Talev
McClatchy Newspapers
(MCT)

WASHINGTON — Internal Bush administration e-mails suggest that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales may have played a bigger role than he has acknowledged in the plan to fire several U.S. attorneys.

The e-mails, delivered to Congress Friday night, show that Gonzales attended an hourlong meeting on the firings on Nov. 27, 2006 — 10 days before seven U.S. attorneys were told to resign. The attorney general's participation in the session calls into question his assertion that he was essentially in the dark about the firings.

By Mike Dorning
Chicago Tribune (MCT)

WASHINGTON — The creator of a widely circulated viral web video portraying Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton as an Orwellian Big Brother was identified Wednesday as an employee of an Internet consulting firm that works for one of her opponents, Sen. Barack Obama.

The Obama campaign denied any involvement in the ad and the consulting firm said it fired the employee immediately after the company learned of his role.

Watch the video for yourself, free via YouTube.

LUNCH:
All-Beef Hot Dog,
Milk, Baby Carrots, Fresh Fruit, Cookies, Fun Chips

ACTIVITIES:
Who wants to win a Coldstone gift card? Come play a game at lunch in Colt Court on Wednesday, 3/28.

ADMINISTRATION:
JUNIORS AND SENIORS! Remember, attendance, missed in-house detention and suspensions will place you on exclusion from activities, so be on your best behavior if you want to participate in activities like prom and picnic!

By Diamond Floyd, Courier Staff Writer

The James Logan High School photography department is legendary. Over the years, the students have accumulated well over 2,000 awards (2,363 to be exact) and outstanding recognitions for their impressive work. Awards include the International Grand Prize and the International Young Photographer's Showcase Kodak Medallion of Excellence.

Yet, despite his spectacular success and the fame of his program, John McNamara, the photography instructor here at Logan, who is responsible for guiding and molding the students from year to year, usually shuns the spotlight. In fact, he didn't want to be photographed to illustrate this article, so we're using his picture from the 1980 Logan yearbook.

Recently, however, he sat down for an interview with The Courier's Diamond Floyd:

By Abdul Nawabi, Courier Staff Writer

In Chris Rock's new movieI Think I Love My Wife, Rock's character, Richard Cooper, lives the well-off but stultifying life of an investment banker.

Rock, who also directed and wrote the script with his frequent collaborator Louis C. K., employs voice-over narration, in the character of Richard, to help tell the story. Richard is the first to admit that his life is pretty good. He has a gorgeous wife named Brenda, played by Gina Torres, with whom he has two cute small children. They live together in a rich man's house in the suburbs, all of it financed by his upwardly mobile career at an established Manhattan financial company.

By Steven Rea and Carrie Rickey
The Philadelphia Inquirer(MCT)

AMAZING GRACE 3 stars. A compelling period drama about real-life anti-slavery crusader William Wilberforce, the British legislator, who, in the late 1700s, fought to abolish slavery — and changed the face of British politics in the process. 1 hr. 56 PG-13 (adult themes) — Steven Rea

ARTHUR AND THE INVISIBLES 1.5 stars. French filmmaker Luc Besson takes his Cuisinart to Lewis Carroll, Jonathan Swift, T.H. White, Frank L. Baum, and picture books featuring pretty, pointy-eared elves in this glossy, long-winded mix of live-action and animation. What a mess! 1 hr. 42 PG (cartoon violence, scary images, inappropriately attired senior citizens) —Steven Rea

Ludwig Quidde (March 23, 1858 – March 4, 1941) was a German pacifist who is mainly remembered today for his acerbic criticism of German Emperor Wilhelm II. Quidde's long career spanned four different eras of German history: that of Bismarck (up to 1890); the Hohenzollern Empire under Wilhelm II (1888 - 1918); the Weimar Republic (1918–1933); and, finally, Nazi Germany. In 1927, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Read Ludwig Quidde's Nobel Lecture, free from geocities.com.