ANTHONY C. MARRONE, the Los Angeles County fire chief, on the firestorms ripping across Los Angeles, threatening an ever wider path of destruction. Page A1.
KHALID AL-QADI, 26, on Syrians picnicking on a mountaintop in the nation’s capital of Damascus and trading openly in dollars, actions forbidden under the former President Bashar al-Assad. Page A1.
'If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration. I didn't grow up playing tennis at the country club' Tennis star Serena Williams, on the run ...