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What if that organization promised the success and youthful vitality of investment guru Warren Buffett and Viacom chief Sumner Redstone, who already possess these secrets? And what if all this could all be yours absolutely free? "I'd think it was a scam," said Los Angeles resident Jim York, 60, who recently received a 10-page letter from a recruiter identifying himself only as Bill.</div></div></div></div><div id="area-two-col-8" class="area" style="float:right;"><div id="mod-col-2-title" class="mod-latarticlestext mod-text">ARTICLES BY DATE</div><div id="mod-kp-article-date-list-1" class="mod-latarticlesarticles mod-articles"><div class="article"><div class="section">OPINION</div><div class="title"><h2><a title="Letters: Gridlock without notice downtown" href="/web/20170922030829/http://articles.latimes.com/2014/apr/27/opinion/la-le-gridlock-without-notice-downtown-20140425">Letters: Gridlock without notice downtown</a></h2></div><div class="info"><span class="date">April 27, 2014</span></div><div class="body">Re “Dedicated until the end,” April 23 The Times reported on a moving ceremony to appropriately honor fallen LAPD Officer Christopher A. Cortijo. It did not report on the decision to shut down roads and gridlock rush-hour traffic downtown and elsewhere to hold a freeway motorcade. Is this the legacy that the officer would have wanted? Was it the best way to honor his life and work? As I sat trapped in traffic, I heard a siren. 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I agree with Jerry Lee Hill, "There is nothing that can take the place of a letter." Being a pack rat who resists discarding personal letters, I have special notes going back 50 years . . . or more. I call them my "treasured possessions." They stir up memories to make me laugh, or cry, remembering the joys or sorrows of life. When my son left home for Alaska in 1973 he answered our letter to him with a quote: "Like cold water to a weary soul is good news from a distant land" (Proverbs 25:25)</div></div></div></div><div id="area-two-col-10" class="area" style="float:right;"><div id="mod-kp-article-date-list-2" class="mod-latarticlesarticles mod-articles"><div class="article"><div class="section">OPINION</div><div class="title"><h2><a title="Letters: Photo hits home" href="/web/20170922030829/http://articles.latimes.com/2014/apr/27/opinion/la-le-photo-hits-home-20140425">Letters: Photo hits home</a></h2></div><div class="info"><span class="date">April 27, 2014</span></div><div class="body">Re “The face of war,” April 24, and “Georgia gun bill signed,” April 24 Whew! I was so relieved to read that the young boy posing with the Kalashnikov rifle was from Syria. My first impression was that he hailed from the state of Georgia and was legally headed to a public place like a bar, church or government building. I reasoned he's much too young. But then I thought, well, we're shocked by the U.S. gun culture's seeming acceptance of guns in schools, so I surmised that it'll only be a matter of time before a caption under the picture of a boy like the one from Syria will read “The face of America.” Rick Conrad Oxnard As I stared at the photo on the front page of The Times of a young boy holding a rifle and an ice cream cone, I had only one thought: shame on us. If we're stupid enough to kill one another over religion, land or any other concocted reason, the least we could do is keep the children safe from harm.</div></div></div></div><div id="area-ad-middle-1" class="area"><div id="mod-article-list-leaderboard1" style="float:left;" class="mod-latarticlesadcpc mod-adcpc"><iframe id="mod-article-list-leaderboard1-frame" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170922030829if_/javascript:(function() {document.open();document.write("<style>body{margin:0px;}</style><script>google_ad_client=\"ca-pub-8415620659137418\";google_ad_slot=\"8406673887\";google_ad_width=\"980\";google_ad_height=\"110\";google_ad_channel=\"8847325881,1000000005\";google_adtest=\"off\";google_safe=\"high\";google_hints=\"letter letter writer removal upcoming films\";google_max_num_ads=\"4\";google_override_format=true;google_page_url=\"http://articles.latimes.com/keyword/letter\";</script><script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js\"></script>");document.close();})();" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" width="980" height="110"></iframe></div><div class="float" style="clear:both;height:1px;line-height:1px;"><img src="/web/20170922030829im_/http://articles.latimes.com/images/pixel.gif" height="1" width="1" alt=""/></div></div><div id="area-two-col-3" class="area" style="float:left;"><div id="mod-kp-article-list-3" class="mod-latarticlesarticles mod-articles"><div class="article"><div class="section">OPINION</div><div class="title"><h2><a title="Letters: Implementing Obamacare" href="/web/20170922030829/http://articles.latimes.com/2013/may/04/opinion/la-le-0504-saturday-obamacare-20130504">Letters: Implementing Obamacare</a></h2></div><div class="info"><span class="date">May 4, 2013</span></div><div class="body">Re "Health law's nasty side effect," May 2 To avoid providing health insurance to all employees who work more than 30 hours a week, some companies are cutting hours to dodge an Obamacare bullet. Let this serve as a classic example of how unworkable the Affordable Care Act is and why legislators should thoroughly read bills before voting them into law. Even prominent Democratic senators - including Jay Rockefeller (W.Va.) and Max Baucus (Mont.), who were instrumental in drafting Obamacare - now admit that there will be huge problems implementing the law. It should be repealed or at least dramatically reworked and downsized.</div></div><div class="article"><div class="section">TRAVEL</div><div class="title"><h2><a title="A Letter to Nancy" href="/web/20170922030829/http://articles.latimes.com/1986-10-26/travel/tr-7401_1_tears-letter-morning">A Letter to Nancy</a></h2></div><div class="info"><span class="date">October 26, 1986</span></div><div class="body">Jerry deserves a Pulitzer for his "Letter to Nancy." Peter and I drank our coffee this morning diluted with tears. We love you. EVONNE GRANT Van Nuys</div></div><div class="article"><div class="section">CALIFORNIA | LOCAL</div><div class="title"><h2><a title="Letters to Servicemen" href="/web/20170922030829/http://articles.latimes.com/1990-09-19/local/me-473_1_letter-upper-lip-servicemen">Letters to Servicemen</a></h2></div><div class="info"><span class="date">September 19, 1990</span></div><div class="body">Last month I saw a small item in The Times that asked the public to write to "Any Servicemen" stationed in the Middle East with Desert Shield. I wrote a one-page letter that reached a Marine sergeant in the desert. I was happy to receive his letter and promptly wrote him back. The following week I received yet another letter from a weather expert on one of the U.S. carriers in the gulf. What really gets my goose bumps going is that I wrote one letter and am receiving numerous letters from different armed forces personnel which means that my letter must be making the rounds through the ranks somehow.</div></div><div class="article"><div class="section">ENTERTAINMENT</div><div class="title"><h2><a title="George Washington attacks bigotry in letter to Jewish congregation" href="/web/20170922030829/http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/11/entertainment/la-et-cm-george-washingtons-letter-to-jewish-group-free-to-display-20120511">George Washington attacks bigotry in letter to Jewish congregation</a></h2></div><div class="info"><span class="date">May 11, 2012</span> | <span class="author">By Jamie Wetherbe</span></div><div class="body">A letter penned by George Washington that's been locked away for a decade will be the centerpiece of an exhibit dedicated to America's early roots in religious freedom. The 337-word document sent to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, R.I., in August 1790 was addressed to "the children of the stock of Abraham" and poetically quoted the Old Testament, vowing that the new government "gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance. " The National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia, where the letter will be displayed, calls the text a defining statement of religious liberty in the new United States.</div></div><div class="article"><div class="section">BUSINESS</div><div class="title"><h2><a title="USDA letter details unsanitary conditions at Foster Farm plants" href="/web/20170922030829/http://articles.latimes.com/2013/oct/09/business/la-fi-mo-foster-farms-letter-20131009">USDA letter details unsanitary conditions at Foster Farm plants</a></h2></div><div class="info"><span class="date">October 9, 2013</span> | <span class="author">By David Pierson</span></div><div class="body">A U.S. Department of Agriculture letter to Foster Farms highlights a series of food safety violations that may have led to the recent outbreak of salmonella that has sickened nearly 300 people across the nation. Foster Farms was cited 12 times between Jan. 1 and Sept. 27 for fecal material on poultry carcasses and was found to have "poor sanitary dressing practices, insanitary food contact surfaces and direct product contamination. " The letter, known as a Notice of Intended Enforcement, was sent Monday and threatens to close three Foster Farm facilities deemed to be the origin of the outbreak.</div></div><div class="article"><div class="section">NEWS</div><div class="title"><h2><a title="A letter home from the vineyards of France, 1918" href="/web/20170922030829/http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/21/news/la-dd-a-letter-home-from-the-vineyards-of-france-1918-20130121">A letter home from the vineyards of France, 1918</a></h2></div><div class="info"><span class="date">January 21, 2013</span> | <span class="author">By S. Irene Virbila</span></div><div class="body">My mother was cleaning out some drawers and found a family letter written from “somewhere in France ” in 1918. Addressed “Dear Folks,” Russell C. Jones, a farm boy from Nebraska, writes home. The war is over, he guesses, as the Armistice has just been signed. “I hope I get home in time to help with the spring work,” he writes, “but a fellow can't tell when he will get back.” True today, too, sadly. I'm struck by his lovely, careful handwriting. It's brown ink, or has it faded?</div></div></div></div><div id="area-two-col-4" class="area" style="float:right;"><div id="mod-kp-article-date-list-3" class="mod-latarticlesarticles mod-articles"><div class="article"><div class="section">OPINION</div><div class="title"><h2><a title="Letters: Priced out of public schools" href="/web/20170922030829/http://articles.latimes.com/2014/apr/27/opinion/la-le-priced-out-of-public-schools-20140425">Letters: Priced out of public schools</a></h2></div><div class="info"><span class="date">April 27, 2014</span></div><div class="body">Re “School activist won't be ignored,” Column One, April 23 Kudos to Sally Smith. We need her in Long Beach, where the school district is determined to institutionalize income inequality by making most school activities accessible to wealthier kids only. When you implement a system in which those who pay the most get the most, then those who can't feel left out and are not as likely to succeed. My complaints to the school board and to the state superintendent went unanswered.</div></div><div class="article"><div class="section">OPINION</div><div class="title"><h2><a title="Letters: Cat care" href="/web/20170922030829/http://articles.latimes.com/2014/apr/27/opinion/la-le-cat-care-20140425">Letters: Cat care</a></h2></div><div class="info"><span class="date">April 27, 2014</span></div><div class="body">Re “Waiter, I'm ready for the tabby,” April 24 The cat cafe is a wonderful idea. Let's hope part of the education about cat health includes an admonition to keep all pet cats inside the home forever. Not only will a pet cat avoid becoming lost, getting hit by a car, getting into fights or contracting a disease, but remember that outdoor cats - even well-fed pet cats - kill millions of birds and mammals every year. Crista Worthy Boise, Idaho More letters to the editor ...</div></div><div class="article"><div class="section">TRAVEL</div><div class="title"><h2><a title="Letters to Travel: The view of Hanalei, Hawaii" href="/web/20170922030829/http://articles.latimes.com/2014/apr/27/travel/la-tr-letters-hanalei-hawaii-tipping-abroad-slavery-and-the-civil-war-20140427">Letters to Travel: The view of Hanalei, Hawaii</a></h2></div><div class="info"><span class="date">April 27, 2014</span></div><div class="body">The inside viewof Hanalei Just a quick note to say Christopher Reynolds did a great job representing Hanalei ["Rooted in Kauai," April 20]. As a born and raised Kauaian (who grew up on Weke Road), I must say I was surprised to open the paper at my current home in California and see my hometown taking over a full spread. Reynolds did a great job representing the island and calling out all the best restaurants and things to do - exactly the list I've sent to friends looking for Kauai recommendations.</div></div><div class="article"><div class="section">OPINION</div><div class="title"><h2><a title="Letters: Need hotels but not tax breaks" href="/web/20170922030829/http://articles.latimes.com/2014/apr/27/opinion/la-le-need-hotels-but-not-tax-breaks-20140425">Letters: Need hotels but not tax breaks</a></h2></div><div class="info"><span class="date">April 27, 2014</span></div><div class="body">Re “Low on lodging, L.A. tourism lags,” Business, April 23, and “L.A.'s room service: City should be more selective with downtown tax breaks, some say,” April 19 On the one hand, you've got the article about hotel construction firms saying they can't build without multiyear tax breaks. Then there's the story about L.A. lacking sufficient lodging and tourism lagging. One development officer says his firm is “very bullish on Los Angeles.” If these companies are so bullish on L.A. , they should not be asking for handouts every time they want to construct a hotel in an area that is in desperate need of them.</div></div><div class="article"><div class="section">OPINION</div><div class="title"><h2><a title="Letters: Let's make a deal" href="/web/20170922030829/http://articles.latimes.com/2014/apr/26/opinion/la-le-lets-make-a-deal-20140425">Letters: Let's make a deal</a></h2></div><div class="info"><span class="date">April 26, 2014</span></div><div class="body">Re “To not nix pix, state must use tax trix,” Editorial, April 21 You fail to explain why you are singling out the film and TV industry for special tax treatment when there are countless other businesses providing equally good jobs in need of incentives for staying in, or returning to, California. The state should determine what constitutes a “favored” business and set its tax policy accordingly. In fact, all nonpolluting businesses that pay a living wage and provide health and retirement benefits to their employees should pay lower taxes than those that don't.</div></div><div class="article"><div class="section">OPINION</div><div class="title"><h2><a title="Letters: Outmaneuvered by Vladimir Putin" href="/web/20170922030829/http://articles.latimes.com/2014/apr/26/opinion/la-le-outmaneuvered-by-vladimir-putin-20140425">Letters: Outmaneuvered by Vladimir Putin</a></h2></div><div class="info"><span class="date">April 26, 2014</span></div><div class="body">Re “Watch Putin's lips,” Opinion, April 20 I don't like Russian President Vladimir Putin. I don't like the way he is dismantling nascent Russian democracy, and I do not like the way he jailed Pussy Riot. But the man is eating our lunch, and our foreign policy poohbahs cannot figure out why they are hungry. When the Crimean caper comes to be analyzed, we will understand that Putin has served a valuable function. 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