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David Haldane
David Haldane, a former Los Angeles Times staff writer, is an award-winning American journalist, author and broadcaster. He has homes in Joshua Tree, California, and Surigao City, Philippines, where he lives with his Filipino wife and their two children.
Opinion
Cruelly tortured (American) pigs
I SUPPOSE it was just a matter of time.The day I first heard the anguished squeals of a terrified pig slaughtered in the backyard...
Opinion
Should parents be told?
IT seems like a question with a simple answer.If a child exhibits symptoms of mental illness in school, should the parents be told? Most...
Opinion
Flailing in the dark
IT happened again the other day.“Hey, Isaac,” I said to my 12-year-old son, “let’s go to…uh…you know…uh…I mean…damn…you know…what’s-it-called…the place we always go shopping…”“Walmart?”...
Opinion
Scrapes in the night
IT was the scrape you never want to hear.A dull rub from the car’s right rear end as we sped through the California desert,...
Opinion
College admissions in Technicolor
IT happened at last.What conservatives hoped and liberals feared: the US Supreme Court has banned race-based affirmative action in college admissions. Membership in a...
Opinion
Slaughter, slaughter everywhere
THE headline was a grabber.“We had our own holocaust here,” it grievously intoned. The story that followed—on the front page of the Los Angeles...
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