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What happened on December 08, 1996

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  • What is Called Nature : THE NATURE OF NATURE and THE TREE. \o7 By John Fowles (The Yolla Bolly Press: $750 slipcased, 116 pp.; $1,800, boxed) : \f7 By M.S. Merwin, \o7 M.S. Merwin is the author, most recently, of "Vixen: Poems" (Knopf)\f7

  • Channeling Joe Frazier By J. R. Moehringer, J. R. Moehringer is an Orange County staff writer

  • Know This Place By Pam Houston, Pam Houston is the author of "Cowboys Are My Weakness." She lives at 9000 feet on the continental divide near the headwaters of the Rio Grande

  • Leave it to Martha By Martha Stewart, \o7 Martha Stewart is the author of 18 books on food and entertaining and the creator of the monthly magazine, "Martha Stewart Living," and a syndicated television show by the same name\f7

  • Wide Open Spaces By \o7 John Balzar Is A Times National Correspondent and A Contributing Writer To Book Review\f7 . and John Balzar

  • Paradise West By William Kittredge, William Kittredge is the author, most recently, of "Who Owns the West" (Mercury House)

  • The Envy of Olympus By Andre Aciman, Andre Aciman is the author of "Out of Egypt: A Memoir" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) now in paper from Riverhead Books

  • Giving the Greats By David Denby, David Denby's "Great Books" was recently published by Simon and Schuster. He is the film critic for New York Magazine

  • The Intimate Subject By Anthony Hernandez and Judith Freeman, \o7 Judith Freeman's most recent novel is "A Desert of Pure Feeling" (Pantheon Books). Anthony Hernandez's book of photographs, "Landscapes for the Homeless," was published last year by the Sprengel Museum in Hanover, Germany\f7

  • The Birthday Suit By Anne Roiphe, Anne Roiphe is the author, most recently, of "Fruitful: A Real Mother in the Modern World" (Houghton Mifflin)

  • Only Connect By Marion Winik

  • Bright Lights By Michael Tolkin, \o7 Michael Tolkin is a novelist and screenwriter. His recent books include "Among the Dead" (Avon) and "The Player, the Rapture, the New Age: Three Screenplays" (Grove Atlantic)\f7

  • Art for Art's Sake By Eleanor Munro, Eleanor Munro is the author of "Originals: American Women Artists" (Simon & Schuster)

  • Inner Arcadia By Claudia Luther, Claudia Luther was acting editor in the Book Review

  • All the Difference in the World By Richard J. Riordan, Richard J. Riordan is the Mayor of Los Angeles

  • Children's Bookshelf By Michael Cart

  • The Plush Life By Patric Kuh, Patrc Kuh has a column in the Internet Magazine Salon at www.salon1999.com

  • Sources of Inspiration By Michael Dorris, Michael Dorris is the author of many books, including "Sees Through Trees" (Hyperion)

  • Twentieth Century Unlimited By A.M. Homes, A. M. Homes' most recent books are "The End of Alice," a novel published by Scribner, and "Appendix A," published by Artspace Books, San Francisco

  • Drop Dead By Judith Gingold, \o7 Judith Gingold is a writer living in Los Angeles\f7

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  • The Perils of Foreign Entanglement and Money By Michael Clough, Michael Clough is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a research associate at the Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley

  • The U.N. Shadow Play  By David Rieff, David Rieff, author of "Slaughterhouse: The Failure of Bosnia and the West" (S&S Trade), is now working on a book about humanitarian aid

  • A Nascent Democracy? U.S. Must Help It Along By Charles A. Kupchan, \o7 Charles A. Kupchan, a professor at Georgetown University and senior fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations, was on the staff of the National Security Council for the first year of the Clinton administration. \f7

  • It May Be Back to Square One By Shibley Telhami, Shibley Telhami is associate professor of government and director of the Near Eastern Studies Program at Cornell University

  • The Question Remains: What Role for Race? By John H. Bunzel, John H. Bunzel is past president of San Jose State University, a former member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and a senior research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution

  • Albright: A Hard-liner Who Wears Heels 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) and is writing a book about U.S. foreign policy

  • A Family's Travails Threatens a Nation By Paula R. Newberg, Paula R. Newberg, senior associate at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University, is the author of "Judging the State: Courts and Constitutional Politics in Pakistan" (Cambridge University Press)

  • 'Tis the Season to Fund Campaigns

  • Murder in Our Midst: Solutions Are Possible

  • Paving Over a Farming Paradise

  • Laying It on the Line for North Korea  By Ahn Byung-joon, Ahn Byung-joon, a professor of international relations at Yonsei University in Seoul, is a visiting professor at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University

  • Tear Down Our Own Berlin Wall  By Michael Dear, Michael Dear is the director of USC's Southern California Studies Center and editor of the "Atlas of Southern California"; with H. Eric Schockman and Greg Hise, he edited "Rethinking Los Angeles" (Sage Publications, 1996)

  • It's Business as Usual for Some Living-Wage Opponents By Peter Dreier and Manuel Pastor, Peter Dreier is professor of politics and director of the Public Policy Program at Occidental College. Manuel Pastor, an economist, is a Research Fellow at Occidental's International and Public Affairs Center and chair of Latin American and Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz

  • Turning Pro Bono Legal Work Into a Crusade for Equal Justice By Donna Mungen, Donna Mungen is is a contributing editor to National Public Radio's "All Things Considered." She interviewed Steven A. Nissen at Public Counsel's office in the Wilshire District

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