The James Logan Courier

By Kevin McDonough
Newsday (MCT)

Once a graveyard of repeats and canceled series, the summer season has become a creatively fertile period. "Sex and the City" was a longtime summer hit for HBO. Last season's "Mad Men" (returning to AMC in July, date to be determined) was not just the best show of the summer, but the most critically acclaimed series of 2007. Of course, summer 2007 also produced Fox's "Anchorwoman," canceled after just one airing.

Here's a selective list of new series, returning favorites and a few mind-boggling oddities that simply defy category.

By Glenn Gamboa
Newsday (MCT)

NEW YORK — Ashanti is ready to fight.

She's had a lot of training for it lately — going up against murderous crows and flesh-eating zombies in last year's hit movie "Resident Evil: Extinction"; going up against a music industry infrastructure that didn't support her last album, and, by association, going up against federal prosecutors who tried (and failed) to take down her label's chief executive and producer Irv Gotti, who was acquitted on all money laundering and racketeering charges. And now, with her new album "The Declaration," the Princess of Hip-Hop Soul wants to take back her rightful place in the kingdom.

"When you get pushed into a certain position and your back's against the wall, you're either gonna sink or you're gonna swim," she says, leaning forward on the conference room table at Universal Motown's Manhattan headquarters. "I choose not to sink."

An Air Force recruiter makes his pitch to a Logan
student. Courier Photo<b>By Jowell Caballero, Courier Staff Writer

Through out the school year you can find a lot of things on campus: good food, overly loud people, couples who just don't understand public decency .and more. All of these things I can handle, but there's one thing that I can't, and that's the ridiculous amount of military recruiters that we have on this campus.

A junior at James Logan, who wishes to remain anonymous, said, "There's just so many of them. At lunch, it feels like they're everywhere you go, bombarding you with this idea that the military is the best thing for everyone."

Sometimes it seems that we have more people here recruiting for the military than we do people recruiting for colleges or trade schools.

By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer

UNION CITY – Penny Loetterle, principal of an Orinda elementary school that was named a 2008 California Distinguished School, and Heidi Green, who runs the largest high school in Oakland, will join the New Haven Unified School District as principals of Eastin and Emanuele elementary schools, respectively, pending approval Tuesday night by the Board of Education.

“A principal’s primary role has to be that of the instructional leader at his or her school, and we have found two wonderful instructional leaders in Penny and Heidi,” Superintendent Dr. Pat Jaurequi said. “Not only that, I believe we have found two principals with backgrounds and experiences that make them exceptionally good fits for their schools.”

From wikipedia:
The Rt. Rev. Barbara Clementine Harris (born 12 June 1930 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was the first woman ordained a bishop in the Anglican Communion.

Education
Harris attended the Philadelphia High School for Girls (Class of 1948). There, she excelled in music and wrote a weekly column for the Philadelphia version of the Pittsburgh Courier called "High School Notes by Bobbi". After graduation, Harris attended the Charles Morris Price School of Advertising and Journalism in Philadelphia where she earned a Certificate in 1950.

Read more about Barbara Harris at gale.cengage.com.