The James Logan Courier

By Jonathan S. Landay and Nancy A. Youssef
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)


WASHINGTON — Four months after President Bush launched his new Iraq strategy, the U.S. troop buildup there is proceeding apace, but feuding among Iraqi politicians and power brokers threatens to block the political reforms on which the success of the plan depends.

U.S. officials warn that the longer the impasse persists over laws on provincial elections and the distribution of Iraq's oil wealth among Shiite Muslims, Kurds and Sunnis, the greater the risk that the surge of 30,000 more U.S. troops into Baghdad, which is intended to provide a security umbrella for political reforms, will be for naught.

LUNCH:
Chicken Caesar Wrap,
Milk, Baby Carrots, Fresh Fruit, Cookie, and Fun Chips

ACTIVITIES:
Dance 2007 - Little Theater Thursday and Friday, May 24 & 25th at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $6, see Ms. Cervantez.

Summer School applications are available in your House Office.

UNION CITY FLEA MARKET OPENS SATURDAY

By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer

UNION CITY -- Local folks with things to sell, or who just want to clean out their garage, are invited to join vendors from throughout the Bay Area on Saturday at the Union City Flea Market, in the parking lot at James Logan High School.

By Troy Wolverton
San Jose Mercury News (MCT)

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Amazon.com is getting into the digital music market, taking on Apple's iTunes Music store. But the move may end up helping Apple instead, analysts say.

That's because Amazon may expand the market for digital music downloads. That in turn could increase the market for digital music players, particularly for Apple's iPods, which dominate the market.

By Kim Peterson
The Seattle Times (MCT)

SEATTLE — That collective wail emanating across the Web on Wednesday was the sound of video gamers denied.

Microsoft had promised to debut a beta, or test, version Wednesday of multiplayer elements of the highly anticipated "Halo 3" for Xbox 360 users to try out.

The game would be open to players who had bought specially marked versions of another Xbox 360 game, "Crackdown."

But when players tried to access the beta, they were told to try later.

By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)

MLB 07: THE SHOW
For: Playstation 3
From: Sony
ESRB Rating: Everyone

Sony's sports games lineup suffered from some very public growing pains during its transition from the original Playstation to the PS2, culminating with most games taking a year off in 2004 to shake the lead out.

This time around, Sony is taking a safer route. That means a game like "MLB 07: The Show" doesn't make as splashy a debut on the system as would a game built for it from the ground up. But it also means we won't have to wait three years for the best-playing baseball game of the last hardware generation to become the king of this one.