It Is Time to Face Our Child Care Crisis By Connie Haddad, Connie Haddad is director of the League of Women Voters in Orange County. In 1988, she chaired the League's statewide study on child care in California
The Powers That Will Be By Joel Kotkin, Joel Kotkin, a contributing editor to Opinion, is a senior fellow at the Pepperdine Institute for Public Policy. He is working on a study of urban leadership in conjunction with the La Jolla Institute
The Limits of Turning Schools Into Businesses By Dorothy Shipps and Larry Cuban, Larry Cuban, a former school superintendent, is professor of education at Stanford University. Dorothy Shipps is research associate at the University of Chicago
Revealing a New Side of Poland's Martial Crisis By Pawel Machcewicz and Malcolm Byrne, Pawel Machcewicz, a Polish historian at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw), is a Fulbright fellow at Georgetown and George Washington Universities. Malcolm Byrne is deputy director of the National Security Archive, a research institution based at George Washington University. The institute and the archive, with the Cold War International History Project, were the main organizers of the Warsaw conference
William Daley By Jonathan Peterson, Jonathan Peterson covers the White House for The Times
Common Touch? Don't Ask Royals By Bruce Mccall, Bruce McCall is a regular contributor to the New Yorker. He is author of a memoir "Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Canada."
The Screamer and His Fire Within By Jonathan Kirsch, Jonathan Kirsch is an attorney and author of "The Harlot by the Side of the Road: Forbidden Tales of the Bible" (Ballantine) and an upcoming biography of Moses
Netwars Weave a New Web of Life By John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt, John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt are coauthors of "The Advent of Netwar" (Rand, 1996)