'Renovation Cost' Proviso Violates State Civil Code KEVIN POSTEMA, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES; Postema is the editor of Apartment Age magazine, a publication of AAGLA, an apartment owners' service group, and manager of public affairs for the California Apartment Law Information Foundation
Now It's Time to Invest in Parks CHRIS DAVIS, Chris Davis, a teacher at Crescenta Valley High School, grew up in Burbank and lives in Pasadena
Changes in Entitlements Needed ALAN B. UNGAR, Alan B. Ungar, a certified financial planner, is Valley Industry and Commerce Assn. federal issues committee co-chairman and Valley chairman of the Concord Coalition
Employers, Supervisors Facing Stricter Harassment, Bias Laws PHIL BARQUER, Phil Barquer is president of the Professionals in Human Resources Assn., a nonprofit association that recently held its annual legal seminar in Orange. He lives in Laguna Niguel
Is Mexico Becoming a Colombia? Luis Rubio, Luis Rubio is director of the Center of Research for Development, a think tank specializing in economic research
To Tether Big Business to the National Interest, Read Hamilton 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
The Venal Center Kevin Phillips, Kevin Phillips, publisher of American Political Report, is author of "The Politics of Rich and Poor." His most recent book is "Arrogant Capital: Washington, Wall Street and the Frustrations of American Politics" (Little Brown)
The Many Versions of Ray's Truth MARC MAPPEN, Marc Mappen, an associate dean at Rutgers University, is the author of "Murder and Spies, Lovers and Lies: Settling the Great Controversies of American History."
Geoffrey Cowan Kenneth R. Weiss, Kenneth R. Weiss is covering higher education for The Times
The Trip That Changed the World Ross Terrill, Ross Terrill, the author of numerous books on China, won the National Magazine Award and the George Polk Award for international reporting for articles in the Atlantic Monthly from China in 1971-1972
Policing by Injunction Is a Feeble Hoax ALLAN PARACHINI, Allan Parachini is public affairs director of the ACLU Foundation of Southern California, which has filed legal challenges to several gang injunctions