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Baltimore: Joe Flacco threw for a career-high five touchdowns the last time the Ravens played Tampa Bay. This time he will be rookie Lamar Jackson’s backup. Buffalo: Josh Allen is the first quarterback in the Super Bowl era with two 100-yard rushing games in a row. He’s the only one to run for… Source: latimes.com […]

Beyond voter mood, there are bureaucratic roadblocks erected by the Democratic and Republican parties to protect their incumbent status. As people who toil in the salt mines of minor-party politics can tell you, fighting for ballot access is an expensive, full-time job. “In Illinois, the Libertarian Party has to turn in 25,000 valid signatures to […]

Even under the best of circumstances, contact has proved dangerous. Brazil’s Department for Indigenous Affairs conducted “first contact” expeditions in the 1970s and 1980s. One of the most experienced expedition leaders, Sydney Possuelo, said: “I set up a system with doctors and nurses. I stocked up with medicines to combat the epidemics which always follow. […]

A young James Jones wrote his first novel, “From Here to Eternity,” describing the wreckage of lives upended by war. Oscar Hammerstein’s 1940 lyrics for “The Last Time I Saw Paris” evoked for generations the melancholy felt by those forced to flee Nazi advances in France. And two painters bookended the traumas of the 1930s […]

Oh man, I wish I had that stuff. There have to be tens of thousands of letters and diaries just as vivid out there, moldering in shoe boxes all over Southern California. They’re hidden among duds, naturally — the dull to-do lists and appointment calendars. But at least once in every box, I swear there’d […]

To the editor: As the new president and chief executive of Huntington Hospital, I am an administrator, but I am a doctor first. My directive is always to put the patient in the center of the room when making decisions. I am troubled by the allegations reported by the Los Angeles Times against a… Source: […]