This is the archive for 19 January 2007
By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Unified School District Public Information Officer

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Safety in Our Schools" will be the topic Tuesday, January 23, when the New Haven Unified School District holds its second New Haven Community Forum, at James Logan High School.
The meeting, hosted by Superintendent Dr. Pat Jaurequi, will begin at 4 p.m. in Logan's student union, "The Spot."
Posted by courier at 09:05 AM. Filed under: News
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By Roger Moore
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)
"Based on a true story" doesn't quite work for "Primeval." How about "Almost entirely unlike the true story" or "An utter croc of a true story?"
You've seen that oft-repeated PBS documentary on Gustav, the man-eating African croc? "Primeval" is an absurd Disney fictionalization of his tale, that of a 25- to 30-foot Burundi crocodile who eats and eats and eats Africans in the middle of nowhere.
Posted by courier at 07:59 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
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John Harold Johnson (January 19, 1918 – August 8, 2005) was the founder of the Johnson Publishing Company, an international media and cosmetics empire headquartered in Chicago, Illinois that includes Ebony, and Jet magazines, Fashion Fair Cosmetics and EBONY Fashion Fair. Johnson was the first black person to appear on the Forbes 400 Rich List, and had a fortune estimated at close to $500 million.
Johnson was born in Arkansas City, Arkansas and in the 1930s moved to Chicago, Illinois with his family, where he attended Chicago's DuSable High School in 1936.
Read more about and watch an interview with John H. Johnson, streaming free from the National Visionary Leadership Project.
Posted by courier at 12:27 AM. Filed under: In Quotes
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