*-Or How I Went Behind Closed Doors and Saw, in Three Sweaty Days, Much of Eastern Hong Kong Island Up Close — and the Perfectly Awful Local Living Conditions Deemed Acceptable, Even Desirable by the Locals. This is not going well, and not for lack of trying. We got off the plane at about 7:30 […]

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So, here we are, a few days into the baseball playoffs, and the best team in the regular season is nine innings from elimination, and the worst team in the regular season is nine innings from advancing. Those would be the Angels and Dodgers, respectively, and their experiences so far — and likely short-term futures […]

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