What happened on July 10, 2005
MAGAZINE
The Great Alaskan Morel Rush of '05 Nancy Rommelmann, Nancy Rommelmann last wrote for the magazine on home funerals and green burials.
Bright Whites, Big City Meghan Daum, Meghan Daum is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles.
Numerical Order Ellen Slezak, Ellen Slezak is the author of a novel, "All These Girls," and a short-story collection, "Last Year's Jesus," both published by Hyperion.
The Red Sox's Bloodiest Day J.R. Moehringer, J.R. Moehringer is a Times national correspondent.
'Open Wide' Hillary Johnson, Hillary Johnson blogs daily about beauty at www.jackandhill.net.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
Keeping the Faith in Public Television Dana Parsons, Dana Parsons' column appears Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. He can be reached at (714) 966-7821 or at dana.parsons@latimes.com. An archive of his recent columns is at www.latimes.com/parsons.
OPINION
His media muscle has gone flabby Laurence Leamer, Laurence Leamer is the author of "Fantastic: The Life of Arnold Schwarzenegger."
Out of order! Joel Pett, Joel Pett is the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist of the Lexington Herald-Leader. His work also appears in USA Today.
We can't win this war the old way Timothy Garton Ash, Timothy Garton Ash is professor of European studies at Oxford University and a Hoover Institution senior fellow.
Blogotorials are bad, bad, bad Jamie Court, Jamie Court, author of "Corporateering," is president of the Santa Monica-based Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights.
When? Pervez Hoodbhoy, Pervez Hoodbhoy is a member of the Pugwash Council and is professor of nuclear and high-energy physics at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Evil targets God's chosen Dennis Prager, Dennis Prager's nationally syndicated radio show is heard daily in Los Angeles on KRLA-AM (870). He may be contacted through his website: www.dennisprager.com.
Box office blues stem from blue-state bigotry Govindini Murty, Govindini Murty is an actress, screenwriter and co-director of the Liberty Film Festival. She is also a film columnist for Newsmax.com and editor of Libertas, a leading blog for conservative discussion on film: www.libertyfilmfestival.com/libertas.
Al Qaeda answers CIA's hiring call Michael Sulick, Michael Sulick is a former CIA associate deputy director for operations and former CIA chief of counterintelligence.
BOOKS
Metamorphosis Wendy Smith, Wendy Smith is the author of "Real Life Drama: The Group Theatre and America, 1931-1940."
The damaged child inside the man Heller McAlpin, Heller McAlpin is a regular contributor to Book Review and other publications.
A brilliant, original mind Miranda Seymour, Miranda Seymour is the author of many books, including "Robert Graves: Life on the Edge," "Mary Shelley" and "Bugatti Queen: In Search of a French Racing Legend."
Martian mayhem Gavin J. Grant, Gavin J. Grant is co-editor of the 2004 and 2005 editions of "The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror."
Dining on discourses of the intellectual elite James D. Squires, James D. Squires is the former editor of the Chicago Tribune and the author of "Read All About It! The Corporate Takeover of America's Newspapers."
Hearts, minds of POWs were in their hands Claire Panosian Dunavan, Claire Panosian Dunavan is a tropical medicine specialist, a medical writer and a professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
All was right -- and wrong -- with the world David J. Garrow, David J. Garrow is the author of "Bearing the Cross," a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and an editorial advisor for "Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1941-1963."
Crime and wit in the City of Angels Dick Lochte, Dick Lochte is a critic of crime fiction and author of the suspense thriller "Sleeping Dog."