The James Logan Courier

LUNCH
Salsa Bar at the Creations booth! Pizza, Chinese, grill items such as burgers & chicken strips, deli sandwiches and, of course, burritos!

MISCELLANEOUS
Don’t miss the student art show, on display in Century Theater lobby now through May 29th. See awesome artwork from AP, Digital and Multicultural Art.

BSU meeting on Thursday, 5/21/09, in Room 529 at 3:35. Meeting will be short.

By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer

The Board of Education on Tuesday night received the annual Superintendent’s report on Measure A and the Citizens Bond Oversight Committee’s annual report on the $120 million bond, approved by New Haven voters in 2003.

Using state matching funds and local revenues and transfers, the District has increased the impact of the bond to $169 million and financed the construction of Conley-Caraballo High School, modernization projects at Cesar Chavez Middle School and Alvarado Middle School, the construction of new classrooms, a childcare center and the Performing Arts Center at James Logan High School, and several other projects. Future projects include the Culinary Arts Institute at Logan.

By Rob Hotakainen
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

WASHINGTON — Saying California voters delivered a message to "go all out" in cutting government spending, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday promised to make severe cuts in education, health care and law enforcement.

"We tried to not make those kind of cuts, but now we have to," the Republican governor told reporters in Washington. "There's no other choice. I think the message was clear from the people: Go all out and make those cuts and live within your means."

By Rob Christensen
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

RALEIGH, N.C. — Elizabeth Edwards said she became physically ill when her husband, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, told her he was having an affair.

"I cried and screamed. I went to the bathroom and threw up," Edwards says in her new memoir.
Elizabeth Edwards, 59, who lives outside Chapel Hill, N.C., writes that John Edwards told her of his affair with campaign videographer Rielle Hunter shortly after he announced his second run for the presidency in December 2006 in New Orleans.

From wikipedia:
Faisal bin Al Hussein Bin Ali El-Hashemi, 20 May 1883 – September 8, 1933) was for a short time King of Greater Syria in 1920 and King of Iraq from 23 August 1921, to 1933. He was a member of the Hashemite dynasty, a descendant of the tribe of Muhammad. Faisal encouraged overcoming cleavage between Sunni and Shiite to foster common loyalty and promote pan-Arabism in the goal of creating an Arab state that would include Iraq, Syria, and parts of the Fertile Crescent. While in power, Faisal tried to diversify his administration by including different ethnic and religious groups in offices. He faced great challenges in achieving this because the region was under European, specifically French and British, control and other Arab leaders of the time were hostile to his ideas as they pursued their own political aspirations for power. In addition, Faisal’s attempt at pan-Arab nationalism inevitably isolated certain religious groups.

Read about Faisal's acceptance of the Balfour Declaration, free from the Jewish Virtual Library.