THE NATION : AFFIRMATIVE ACTION : One Company's Story in Promoting Diversity By Stephen Steinberg, \o7 Stephen Steinberg, a professor of urban studies at Queens College, CUNY, is the author of "Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy," due out from Beacon Press in September\f7
MEXICO : Army Shouldn't Fight War Against Drug Lords By Andrew A. Reding, \o7 Andrew A. Reding, an associate editor of Pacific News Service, directs the North America Project of the World Policy Institute at the New School for Social Research\f7
COUNTY GOVERNMENT : A Budget That Only Regionalists Dream Of By Xandra Kayden, \o7 Xandra Kayden, a political scientist at UCLA's School of Public Policy and Social Research, is writing a book on the political structure of Los Angeles. She is the author of "Surviving Power" (Free Press.)\f7
Setting Out to Sea in the Wake of Crisis By John Muncie, \o7 Muncie is a former assistant managing editor for features at the San Diego Union-Tribune, and now a free\f7 -\o7 lance editor and writer. Books to Go appears the second and fourth week of every month. \f7