The James Logan Courier

James Logan’s Varsity boys basketball squad notched their first win of the preseason Wednesday night against Arroyo of San Lorenzo in the first round of Washington Husky Classic basketball tournament, 61-50.

By Warren P. Strobel and Jonathan S. Landay
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is trying to bring Persian Gulf monarchies and other Sunni Muslim Arab autocrats into a new security alliance to contain Shiite Muslim Iran's growing influence and stem any spillover of violence from Iraq, according to senior U.S. officials, diplomats and private analysts.

By Eric Benderoff
Chicago Tribune (MCT)

CHICAGO — 'Tis the season to start receiving greeting cards, and a growing number of them, conveniently, will come via the Internet.

There's only one problem: Some of the e-mails saying that you have an e-greeting card from a friend or family member may instead be from a scam artist intent on obtaining your Social Security number, credit card data or even brokerage account information.

By Bruce Newman
San Jose Mercury News (MCT)

At the end of "10 Items or Less," an unnamed but readily identifiable movie star (played by Morgan Freeman) is trying to explain what it's like to "know everybody," and yet have no real friends. People seem to recognize him wherever he goes, and yet it's as if he's a ghost, a figment of their collective imagination.

"I realize that I could just disappear," he says with a terrible finality.


Morgan Freeman stars in "10 Items or Less," in theaters now.

By Cynthia Fuchs
PopMatters.com (MCT)

IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL
The prime minister made clear that splitting his country into parts, as some have suggested, is not what the Iraqi people want, and that any partition of Iraq would only lead to an increase in sectarian violence.
— George W. Bush, 30 November 2006

And when the full history of this bloody circus is written, people will look back slack-jawed at the scale and brazenness of the occupation's corruption and incompetence.
—Christian Parenti, The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq (New York: The New Press 2004)

There are Iraqi women who have not shed their black mourning robes since 2003 because each time the end of the proper mourning period comes around, some other relative dies and the countdown begins once again.
—Riverbend, 18 October 2006


A scene from the film "Iraq in Fragments."

By Stephen Becker
The Dallas Morning News (MCT)

STAYING POWER: Despite a quintet of new wide releases last week, "Happy Feet" and "Casino Royale" maintained their spots atop the box-office heap. The total for the top 12 movies was down 3 percent from last year, but that was the second-best Thanksgiving weekend in history.

Professor Godfrey Harold Hardy FRS (February 7, 1877 – December 1, 1947) was a prominent English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis. He was called "Harold" by a few close friends, and otherwise "G. H.".

Non-mathematicians usually know him for A Mathematician's Apology, his essay from 1940 on the aesthetics of mathematics. The apology is often considered one of the layman's best insights into the mind of a working mathematician.

Read Godfrey Hardy's i>A Mathematician's Apology, free from the University of Alberta, Canada.