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And so I covered subjects such as the last art gallery in Baghdad, the embattled ballet school, historic buildings from the golden age, the National Symphony Orchestra, and the like. I managed to ...

If I could buttonhole you for a moment, fellow citizen, to lament a general concern that may seem rather secondary amid the shrill noise of other pressing concerns. Have you also noticed it, the ...

There is madness, yes. But imperialism has always been tinged with madness. Hundreds of millions of people from the Americas to China have been either killed or subdued so that a small part of the ...

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Be careful which fantasies you fall for, is all I’m saying. If, like me, you get a little too swept away in Hercule Poirot’s ...

There was some awkwardness last week when 2024 NAEP results showed that LAUSD’s 8th-grade reading score dropped by eight ...

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