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SUNDAY REVIEW

OJAI, Calif. — There is the origi-nal commencement address thatAldous Huxley gave in 1951, savedfrom a burning boarding school inOjai. There is a tattered andsinged American flag, too. And onwall after wall of the Ojai museumare photographs of fire and de-struction.

It was only a year ago that awildfire set a ring of flamesaround this rustic city northwestof Los Angeles. But the fire is al-ready part of a retrospective exhi-bition that tries to make sense ofthe tragedy, even as homes re-main destroyed and the traumaremains fresh.

The Thomas Fire that laidwaste to sections of Ojai brieflystood as the largest in the state’shistory, only to be eclipsed in Au-gust by the Mendocino ComplexFire. Then came the devastationof recent days in Paradise, inNorthern California, a blaze neverbefore seen in modern Californiahistory. The Camp Fire has re-duced Paradise to ash, and so farauthorities have identified 76 peo-ple killed, with more than 1,200listed as missing. Before that, afire in 1933 in Griffith Park, LosAngeles, stood for decades as thestate’s deadliest, with 29 people

killed.So it is in California that as one

community, Paradise, is onlystarting to comprehend its lossesin what is now the deadliest andmost destructive fire in state his-tory, another community, Ojai, abohemian idyll in a valley not farfrom the Pacific Ocean, is comingtogether to remember its last bigwildfire — and to worry about

when the next one might come.“When we started talking about

this exhibit earlier this year, Idon’t think it occurred to us — wedidn’t even think about it — that itwould be fire season,” said WendyBarker, the director of the OjaiValley Museum. She added thatshe felt uneasy about opening theshow at a time when the state, yetagain, is on fire: in the north, in

Paradise, and in the south, withthe Woolsey Fire, near Malibu andparts of Ventura County, not toofar from Ojai.

But this is California, wherethese days fires seem to be ragingall the time.

Ms. Barker, whose exhibitionincluded the maps of fires thatburned near Ojai throughout its

As Paradise Smolders, Another California Town Recalls Fiery PastBy TIM ARANGO

and JENNIFER MEDINA

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President Trump and Mayor Jody Jones of Paradise, Calif., assessed the loss on Saturday. Page 21.SAUL LOEB/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES

The alliance between Demo-crats and Silicon Valley has buck-led and bent this year amid revela-tions that platforms like Facebookand Twitter allowed hatefulspeech, Russian propaganda andconservative-leaning “fake news”to flourish.

But those tensions burst intoopen warfare this past week afterrevelations that Facebook execu-tives had withheld evidence ofRussian activity on the platformfor far longer than previously dis-closed, while employing a Repub-lican-linked opposition researchfirm to discredit critics and the bil-lionaire George Soros, a majorDemocratic Party patron.

Democrats now face a painfulreckoning with longtime friendsin the tech industry, relationshipsgirded by mutual interest in is-sues like immigration and ce-mented with millions of dollars incampaign contributions.

The news, reported in a NewYork Times investigation, elicitedfury from Democrats, who de-manded a Justice Department in-vestigation into Facebook’s lobby-ing campaign, as well as new reg-ulations that would cut to the coreof Facebook and Google’s data-hungry business models.

It reinforced criticism from theleft — by Senator Elizabeth War-ren of Massachusetts, among oth-ers — that Amazon, Facebook andGoogle are unaccountable monop-olies, digital analogues to the rail-road trusts of the Gilded Age.

And it complicated life for tech’sremaining allies in the party, suchas Senator Chuck Schumer ofNew York, a voracious fund-raiserand a tech booster whose relation-

Top DemocratsVoice DistrustOf Tech Giants

Revelations UndermineLongtime Alliances

By NICHOLAS CONFESSOREand MATTHEW ROSENBERG

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County officials in Marylandmiscalculated how many ballotsthey would need on Election Day— and quickly ran out in morethan a dozen precincts.

In New York City, voters weregiven a two-sheet ballot thatjammed machines and caused de-lays and long lines. And in Geor-gia, some voters failed to providedetails like a birth year, leading of-ficials to reject hundreds of absen-tee ballots for “insufficient oathinformation” before federaljudges intervened.

Nearly two decades after votingproblems in a handful of Floridacounties paralyzed the nation,America’s election grid this monthremained a crazy patchwork of in-conveniences, confusion and er-rors, both human-made and me-chanical. The lumbering system,combined with claims of votersuppression and skewed mapsfrom redistricting, once againtested confidence in the integrityof the vote.

As in 2000, no evidenceemerged of widespread fraud orpolitical interference. But justfinding enough qualified pollworkers to make Election Dayhappen was once again a chal-lenge, as voters navigated morethan 100,000 polling places,staffed by 900,000 mostly volun-teer workers and administered bysome 10,000 local jurisdictions.(After the 2016 election, nearly

AN ELECTION GRIDRIFE WITH FLAWSSHOWS THEM ALL

TESTING PUBLIC’S TRUST

No Signs of Vast Fraud,but Glitches and Flubs

Sow Skepticism

This article is by Mike McIntire,Michael Wines and Alan Blinder.

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VICTORVILLE, Calif. — Make-up, earrings and perfume are offlimits. So are smiles.

Even the swing of a ponytail canattract unwanted attention, sowomen slick their hair back into astyle known as the “bureau bun”— as in the Federal Bureau ofPrisons.

They wear oversized uniformsto hide the faint outlines of theirundergarments, or cover them-selves from neck to thigh withbaggy black windbreakers knownas “trash bags,” even on hot sum-mer days on the concrete yards.

For women who work in federalprisons, where they are vastlyoutnumbered by male colleaguesand male inmates, concealing ev-ery trace of their femininity isboth necessary and, ultimately, fu-tile. “They never even see whatyou are wearing,” said OctaviaBrown, a supervisor in Victorville,Calif., of the inmates she oversees.“They see straight through it.”

Some inmates do not stop atstares. They also grope, threatenand expose themselves. But whatis worse, according to testimony,court documents, and interviewswith female prison workers, malecolleagues can and do encouragesuch behavior, undermining theauthority of female officers andjeopardizing their safety. Othermale employees join in the har-assment themselves.

And while women who reportharassment face retaliation, pro-fessional sabotage and even ter-mination, a New York Times ex-amination found, the careers ofmany harassers and those whoprotect them flourish.

When an inmate thrust his pe-nis against Jessica Hodak, at thetime a secretary in California, andthreatened to rape her, shewanted to discipline him. But hermanager pressured her to let it go,she said in a lawsuit. When an in-mate groped a guard named Me-linda Jenkins, she was ordered to

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‘I didn’t even want to turn around because I knew they probablyhad their faces pressed up against the window, trying to see

as much of me as they could.’SANDRA CARPENTER, a secretary at the federal prison in Victorville, Calif.,

who was locked by a colleague in a ward with inmates so they could masturbate.

Harassment, Humiliation and Terror

Working in PrisonWhile Female

By CAITLIN DICKERSON

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A promising wide receiver reached thedepths of despair. Now he is among agrowing number of college athletescombating a long-held stigma. PAGE 1

SPORTSSUNDAY

Opening Up About Depression

BUENOS AIRES — In the yearsince 44 Argentine sailors van-ished aboard a submarine, somerelatives of the missing crewmembers had refused to speak oftheir loved ones in the past tenseas they held out hope for a miracle— or at least clarity as to what be-fell them.

This weekend, Argentine offi-cials said the wreckage of the sub-marine had been found, offeringthe first concrete answers aboutone of the deadliest and most con-founding maritime disasters inmodern times.

“If we had a speck of hope, nowthere is none left,” said GiselaPolo, the sister of Esteban Alejan-dro Polo, 32, one of the sailors whodied. “We’ve seen the images.They described the depth where itwas found. It makes no sense tokeep talking about him as if hewere still alive.”

The discovery of the subma-rine, almost a year to the day afterit disappeared in stormy weather,revealed that it imploded close tothe ocean floor, officials said onSaturday, but that its main hull ap-peared to be . Now the govern-ment of President Mauricio Macri

will have to answer questionsfrom frustrated families aboutwhat more can be gleaned fromthe wreckage.

The disappearance of the sub-marine had confounded expertsand had drawn attention to the di-lapidated state of Argentina’sarmed forces. Relatives of themissing sailors decried the mili-tary as reckless.

“This is news that fills us withenormous pain,” Mr. Macri said ina recorded message Saturday

Mystery of Lost Argentine SubEnds a Year Later, Deep at Sea

By DANIEL POLITIand MIHIR ZAVERI

Relatives of missing submarinecrew members on Saturday inMar del Plata, Argentina.

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A White House official responsible forAmerican policy on Saudi Arabia re-signed, a move that may suggest frac-tures over a dissident’s murder. PAGE 25

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A Split Over Saudi Policy?

FLORIDA Ron DeSantis, the Republican governor-elect, took a noncon-frontational approach during the fractious recount ordeal. PAGE 20

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CALIFORNIA Democrats swept the congressional delegation in OrangeCounty as Gil Cisneros defeated Young Kim, a Republican. PAGE 20

Today, some sunshine giving way toclouds, chilly, high 43. Tonight, con-siderably cloudy, low 39. Tomorrow,variably cloudy, stray showers, high49. Weather map is on Page 24.

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