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The house party where 2007 Logan graduate Biniam Yifru died was in high gear until it turned into a scene of horror.

Yifru died early Saturday morning after being shot in the head at a party hosted by another recent graduate at the home of Logan House Principal Beth Davies.

"I was dancing. The party was what you would call "crackin'," a witness told The Courier. "I saw a couple of Decoto dudes, but I didn't think they would cause trouble. then all I see is the lights go on, and people fighting.

By Carmen Shiu, Courier Entertainment Editor

Let’s all clear the air first. “Bruce Almighty,” which is the first "Almighty” movie before "Evan" is one of my favorite movies. It is full of comedy, symbolism, and more. Secondly, commercials and trailers tend to ruin the humor and greatness of many movies. After seeing a number of different scenes already, movies just are not as good as they should be.

“Evan Almighty” is the sequel to Jim Carrey and Jennifer Aniston’s “Bruce Almighty.” Its cast includes Steve Carrell, Morgan Freeman, Lauren Graham, and Wanda Sykes. After being an anchorman on the first movie, Evan Baxter, played by Carrell, becomes elected as a congressman. He moves to Washington D.C. along with his family, including wife Joan Baxter (Graham) for something better and sacrificed the fact that they have to leave home. Struggling between family and work, the last thing Baxter needed to do was to build an ark as a command from God (Freeman) to prepare for a flood. It is easy to see the difficulties of Baxter are changing ways from God when he has to be in front of many other congressmen.

By Carmen Shiu, Courier Entertainment Editor

Every time I am asked to watch a horror film in the theaters by my friends, I am always hesitant because they tend to be a waste of money. Mostly it is because scriptwriters seem to be incapable of ending the movies correctly. With “1408,” I am pleased to say that I did not waste my money and that a horror movie finally had a horror ending.

“1408” stars John Cusack as an author (Mike Enslin) who writes about the supernatural and paranormal. His latest is about haunted hotels, in which people start to send him postcards and invitations to stay in hotels that they believe are haunted. After going through a number of them, a postcard from the Dolphin Hotel caught his eye as it tells him not to enter room 1408. Samuel L. Jackson plays as the hotel’s manager (Gerald Olin) that warns and bribes him in any way possible that Enslin should not stay in the room. The history of the room includes a number of deaths and injuries, in which Olin does not want to be hold responsibility for another one. Daring and determined, Enslin decides to stay in the room anyway to prove that it is not haunted.

By Alan Silverman, VOA News
Hollywood


The 2002 kidnapping and murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan is dramatized from the perspective of his widow, French-born journalist Mariane Pearl, in A Mighty Heart, a powerful new film by English director Michael Winterbottom and starring Oscar-winner Angelina Jolie.

In Karachi on January 23, 2002 Daniel Pearl kissed Mariane goodbye for the last time. The Wall Street Journal investigative reporter was off to interview a source for a story he was researching on alleged local links to terrorist groups.

Mariane Pearl, six months pregnant, quickly knew something was wrong ...and her fears were confirmed when a little-known group sent a message accusing Daniel of being a spy and demanding the United States release all Pakistani terror detainees.

By Karen Herzog
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT)

In survey after survey, we say we want to eat healthful foods, but then what do we do?

We eat whatever we want, hoping to somehow avoid the consequences of excess calories, sugar and fat in our favorite treats.

Always eager to give American consumers what they want, the food industry thought, why not make all unhealthful foods "healthy" by adding assorted herbs and nutrients?

From wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
George Ellery Hale (June 29, 1868 – February 21, 1938) was an American solar astronomer, born in Chicago. He was educated at MIT, at the Observatory of Harvard College, (1889-90), and at Berlin (1893-94). As an undergraduate at MIT, he invented the spectroheliograph, with which he made his discoveries of the solar vortices and magnetic fields of sun spots.

Read Robert Aitken's comments about George Hale when he was presented with the Bruce Gold Medal, free from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.