What happened on August 25, 1996

BOOKS

NEWS

ENTERTAINMENT

Paging Mr. Tarantino! By Elaine Dutka, Elaine Dutka is a Times staff writer
The Show Must Go On By Laurie Winer, Laurie Winer is The Times' theater critic
Fleshing Out the Getty By Karrie Jacobs, \o7 Karrie Jacobs is an architecture critic based in New York. and \f7
Virtuoso of the Vaults By Bill Kohlhaase, Bill Kohlhaase is a regular contributor to Calendar
Entering a New Dimension By David Pagel, David Pagel is a regular art reviewer for Calendar
She Can't Hide Her Feelings By Robert Hilburn, Robert Hilburn is The Times' pop music critic
Going Against the Grain By Robert Hilburn
Ya Gotta Fight for the Right to Make It Nice By Todd Coleman, Todd Coleman is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer
A Dearth of Vision By Joel Deutsch, Joel Deutsch is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer
'Rent' Party Comes to La Jolla By Don Shirley, Don Shirley is a Times staff writer
Trying to Have the Last Laugh By Scott Collins, Scott Collins is a frequent contributor to Calendar
A Wealth of Music at Budget Prices By Herbert Glass, Herbert Glass is a regular contributor to Calendar
Stepping Out With Frit and Frat By Jan Breslauer, Jan Breslauer is a regular contributor to Calendar
Into the Fray, but Not Without Protection By Leah Ollman, Leah Ollman is a frequent contributor to Calendar
Getting Back to Fundamentals By Robert Hilburn
BROADWAY CAST RECORDING "Rent" DreamWorks * * * * It's... By Laurie Winer
All Things Must Pass? Not the Beatles By Rip Rense and Jerry Crowe
CASHING IN: The Beatles might not have another reunion... By Richard Cromelin
Y'ALL COME: R.E.M. is inviting the public to lavish... By Steve Hochman
SMALL FACES: The Presidents of the United States of...
* * * Sleeper, "The It Girl," Arista. On the surface, this... By Sara Scribner
* 1/2 Lina Santiago, "Feels So Good," Universal. Cheap... By Jean Rosenbluth
SHADOW BOXING: You can hear another "new" Beatles track... By Rip Rense
Album Spotlight By Don Heckman
Hitting It Off
Bracing for a Tornado of a Sales Season By Donald Liebenson, Donald Liebenson is a Chicago-based freelancer who writes about home video
Aiming a Critic's Spotlight at the Series By Laurie Winer

BUSINESS

CALIFORNIA | LOCAL

OPINION

Las Vegas: The Last Outpost of Western Civilization By Michael Ventura, Michael Ventura's new novel, "The Death of Frank Sinatra," is set in Las Vegas. It will be published next month by Henry Holt
A San Diego 'Chinatown' With Los Angeles as Victim By Steven P. Erie, Steven P. Erie, a UC San Diego political science professor, is the author of "International Trade and Job Creation in Southern California: Facilitating Los Angeles/Long Beach Port, Rail, and Airport Development" (California Policy Seminar)
End of the Dream? These Are the Good Old Days By Bruce J. Schulman
The Immigrants' View of Education By Carlos Monsivais, Carlos Monsivais is a Mexican journalist, historian and social critic. His most recent book is "Los Rituales del Caos" (The Rituals of Chaos)
When Justice Failed--and Conventions Counted By James P. Turner, James P. Turner retired in 1994 after 25 years as the career deputy assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department
Economic Success May Soon Force Beijing to Deal With Internal Woes By Xiao-huang Yin, Xiao-huang Yin is an associate professor at Occidental College and a corresponding associate of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard. He just returned from a six-week tour of China
What 15% Tax Cut? Just Ask Greenspan By Walter Russell Mead, Walter Russell Mead, a contributing editor to Opinion, is a presidential fellow at the World Policy Institute. He is the author of "Mortal Splendor: The American Empire in Transition" (Houghton Mifflin)
James Carville By Steve Proffitt, Steve Proffitt, a contributing editor to Opinion, is project director at the Hajjar/Kaufman New Media Lab. He interviewed James Carville from the political consultant's offices in Washington
Big Sale at the Cancer Society
More Economic Light in Mexico
When It Comes to Drugs, Legal Doesn't Mean Safe
Standing Behind Mexico Pays Off By Frank Del Olmo, Frank del Olmo is assistant to the editor of The Times and a regular columnist
Politics Threatens to Kill Charter Reform Even Before It Starts By Xandra Kayden, 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.)

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What happened on August 25, 1996

BOOKS

Call of the Wild? : A HUNTER'S HEART: Honest Essays on Blood Sport.\o7 Edited by David Petersen (Henry Holt: $25, 331 pp.)\f7 By John Balzar, \o7 John Balzar is a Times national correspondent and contributing writer to Book Review\f7

Avenging Angel in an Airless World : THE LAST THING HE WANTED.\o7 By Joan Didion (Alfred A. Knopf: $23, 227 pp.)\f7 By Richard Eder

Capitol Offense,\o7 By Barbara Mikulski and Marylouise Oates (Dutton; $23.95; 312 pp.)\f7 By John Balzar

A Love Story (With True Grit) : OUT OF SIGHT.\o7 By Elmore Leonard (Delacorte Press: $22.95, 296 pp.)\f7 By Ed Mcbain, \o7 Ed McBain's new novel is "Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear" (Warner Books)\f7

Nobody Knows the Troubles He's Seen : CADILLAC JUKEBOX.\o7 By James Lee Burke (Hyperion: $22.95, 297 pp.)\f7 By Dick Lochte, \o7 Dick Lochte's last mystery novel, "The Neon Smile," is an Ivy paperback\f7

Harrison Ford, Call Your Agent : EXECUTIVE ORDERS.\o7 By Tom Clancy (Putnam: $27.95, 874 pp.)\f7 By Paul Dean, \o7 Paul Dean is a Los Angeles Times staff writer\f7

Good vs. Medieval : THE BOOK OF MERCY.\o7 By Kathleen Cambor (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $23, 288 pp.)\f7 By Valerie Cornell, \o7 Writer Valerie Cornell lives in New York, where she is completing a novel\f7

Filtered Through Africa : SARAH'S PSALM.\o7 By Florence Ladd (Scribner: $22, 320 pp.)\f7 By Karen Grigsby Bates, \o7 Karen Grigsby Bates is a frequent contributor to The Times' Op-Ed page and has traveled throughout West Africa\f7

An Antidote for Women Who Get Bitten : LOVERBOYS.\o7 By Ana Castillo (W. W. Norton: $21, 224 pp.)\f7 By Sandra Scofield, \o7 Sandra Scofield's most recent novel is "A Chance to See Egypt" (HarperCollins)\f7

Nonfiction By Kenneth Turan

Nonfiction By Michael Harris

Nonfiction By Michael Harris

Fiction By Michael Harris

Fiction By Michael Harris

CANYON DE CHELLY: 100 Years of Painting and Photography... By Charles Solomon

Fiction By Michael Harris

I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC: A Year With Microsoft on the... By Charles Solomon

FOLLOW YOUR HEART \o7 by Susanna Tamaro, translated from... By Charles Solomon

PATRIMONY: A True Story \o7 by Philip Roth (Vintage: $12... By Charles Solomon

DARK AND STORMY RIDES AGAIN: The Best (?) From the... By Charles Solomon

THE SNOW LEOPARD \o7 by Peter Matthiessen (Penguin... By Charles Solomon

NEWS

Grande Dame of the Grand Slam : Not Sampras. Not Graf. 'Dodo' Cheney is the winningest player tennis has known. Really. And at nearly 80, she has no intention of slacking off now. By Paul Dean, TIMES STAFF WRITER

No Warrant? No Cause? No Signs? No Problem? By Robin Abcarian

A Leader Falls Amid a War in the House By Gregg Zoroya, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES

On the Road Again? By Rose-marie Turk, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES

How to Tell When They're Too Sick to Go to School By Kathleen Doheny

Why 'Hiding' Guns From Kids Just Won't Work By Bill Guttentag, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES

'Pagliacci' Opens the Fall Social Season By Mary Lou Loper, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Gun Blight at the O.K. Corral : In Tombstone, Sidearms Are Legal and Brains Are Optional By Julia Prodis, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Asian Loggers Cutting a Swath Through World's Rain Forests By Denis D. Gray, ASSOCIATED PRESS

From Mighty Forests, Little Chopsticks Grow From Associated Press

'Emily Project' Offers a Window Into a Young Woman's Life in 1932 By Wilson Ring, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Silence Deepens Mystery Surrounding TWA Explosion By Rick Hampson, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Illegal Imitations of Name-Brand Products Proliferate Among Peruvians By Lynn F. Monahan, ASSOCIATED PRESS

House of Commons Becomes House of Blues for Conservative Members By Maureen Johnson, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Monument Awaits Day in the Sun By Scott Bowles, WASHINGTON POST

Credit-Card Fraud Soars as Technology Unlocks Personal Information By Laura Meckler, ASSOCIATED PRESS

EPA OKs Use of Pesticide to Control Mites in Apples Associated Press

Great Minds Galled by Guy Who Says Science Is Through By Matt Crenson, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Hurricane Dolly Brings Texas Drought Relief Reuters

Study Links Donors, White House Stays From Times Staff and Wire Reports

Too Late for Baylor to Expel Nude Models Associated Press

R.E.M., Warner Records Sign $80-Million Deal By Chuck Philips, TIMES STAFF WRITER

On Day Two of Chechnya Truce, Foes Start Talks By Richard Boudreaux, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Broad Reach of Welfare Reform Stirs Anxiety By Sam Fulwood Iii, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Chicago '68: A Melee in America's Cultural War By Richard T. Cooper, TIMES STAFF WRITER

'Dammit, Snake, It Must Be the RUBs' By Richard E. Meyer, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Hollywood Plays a Starring Role in Financing Politics By Robert W. Welkos, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Some Chechens Won't Go Home Again By Vanora Bennett, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Policy of Mixing Prison Gangs Under Study By Mark Arax, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Animal Crackers Galore By Peter H. King

Family's Work Becomes Tribute to Daughter By Renee Tawa, TIMES STAFF WRITER

That Sinking Feeling : Rotting Schooner Symbolizes San Francisco's Old Ship Collection, Beset by Lack of Funds and Neglect By Mary Curtius, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Mother Teresa Develops Chest Infection From Times Wire Services

Monsoons in Pakistan Kill at Least 26 Associated Press

France Expels 57 Africans, Including 4 From Paris Sit-In From Times Wire Services

Guantanamo Bay: The Epitome of So Close, and Yet So Far Away By Juanita Darling, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Cuban Exiles Resume Flights Over Florida Straits From Reuters

Paper Cites More Police Bungles in Belgian Sex Case From Associated Press

Cambodia May Pardon Leader of Khmer Rouge From Associated Press

113 Die as Storm Strands Thousands in Himalayas From Associated Press

Swastika Is Carved Into Cornfield From Times Staff and Wire Reports

Skull of Rebel Taken From Battlefield Returned, Buried From Associated Press

125 Are Held in INS Raid of Meat Plant From Times Staff and Wire Reports

Clinton Orders Tracking of Sex Offenders By Norman Kempster, TIMES STAFF WRITER

GOP Picks Former Lawmaker to Replace Cooley From Times Wire Services

Tom Hayden, the Delegate, Looks Back at Tom Hayden, the Demonstrator By Marc Lacey, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Dole Backs Clinton's Effort to Curb Teen Smoking By Edwin Chen, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Democrats' Convention Planners Humming 'Hail to the Chief' By Robert Shogan, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Women Begin a New Era at The Citadel From Associated Press

Swift Wildfire Razes 17 Homes Near Bend, Ore. From Associated Press

Toddler Found Dead at Baby-Sitter's Home From A Times Staff Writer

Movement to Split Apart L.A. School District Wanes By Lucille Renwick, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Hayden Swaps Roles in Sequel to Chicago '68 By Marc Lacey, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Class Size May Be Lesser of O.C. Schools' Problems By Martin Miller and Tina Nguyen, TIMES STAFF WRITERS

The Community of Canyon Lake Appears to Have It All--Even a Wall By Tom Gorman, TIMES STAFF WRITER