What happened on November 16, 2008
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
Voicing their opposition By Jessica Garrison and Corina Knoll, Garrison and Knoll are Times staff writers.
As embers fly, patients and staff in dark By Andrew Blankstein and Seema Mehta, Blankstein and Mehta are Times staff writers.
Hoping for help from Obama By David Zahniser and Patrick Mcgreevy, Zahniser and McGreevy are Times staff writers.
Chaos erupts from pair of blazes By Mike Anton, Christopher Goffard and My-thuan Tran, Anton, Goffard and Tran are Times staff writers.
Air on the side of caution, folks By Ari B. Bloomekatz and Esmeralda Bermudez, Bloomekatz and Bermudez are Times staff writers.
Paradise is lost for Oakridge residents By Louis Sahagun, James Wagner and Jason Song, Sahagun, Wagner and Song are Times staff writers.
ENTERTAINMENT
Souls in search of freedom By Judith Freeman, Freeman's most recent book, "The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved," has just come out in paperback.
Studio War By John Horn, Horn is a Times staff writer.
When aliens invaded N.Y. By Jim Ruland, Ruland is the author of "Big Lonesome: Stories."
On Chaucer's tale By Alexander Theroux, Theroux is the author of many books, including "Laura Warholic: Or, The Sexual Intellectual."
May the farce be with you By Donald Liebenson, Donald Liebenson is a freelance writer.
Seasoned serenity By Graham Fuller, Fuller is a freelance writer.
Tiny pages, grand scale By Suzanne Muchnic, Muchnic is a Times staff writer.
A rage against middle years By Susan Salter Reynolds, Salter Reynolds is a Times staff writer.
It's get moving day By Cherie Troped, Cherie Troped is a freelance writer.
He's a real family man By Richard Rushfield, Rushfield is a Times staff writer.
She charms like the devil By Patrick Pacheco, Pacheco is a freelance writer.
Separating brilliant man from medieval myth By Jonathan Kirsch, Kirsch is the author of 12 books, including, most recently, "The Grand Inquisitor's Manual: A History of Terror in the Name of God."
OPINION
Holocaust's unholy hold By Avraham Burg, Avraham Burg, former speaker of the Israeli parliament, is a businessman and author, most recently, of "The Holocaust Is Over; We Must Rise From Its Ashes," published this month by Palgrave Macmillan.
Wrangling over psychiatry's bible By Christopher Lane, Christopher Lane, a professor of English at Northwestern University, is the author of "Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness."
The wrong turf By Matthew Debord, Matthew DeBord is a writer in Los Angeles.
A side-splitting election By Joel Pett, Joel Pett is the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist of the Lexington Herald-Leader. His work also appears in USA Today.