Cotton Sack: A Short Story FRANCISCO JIMENEZ, Francisco Jimenez is the author of the forthcoming "The Circuit: Stories From the Life of a Migrant Child" (University of New Mexico Press, 134 pp., $10.95), from which this story is excerpted with permission
Holy Land D.J. WALDIE, D.J. Waldie is the author of "Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir" (St. Martin's Press) and the recipient of the 1997 California Book Award for nonfiction. He is a city official in Lakewood
Point Conception CAROL MUSKE DUKES, Carol Muske Dukes is the author of numerous books including, most recently, "An Octave Above Thunder: New and Selected Poems."
Offstage, a Completely Different Animal Robert Greskovic, Robert Greskovic is a New York City critic for Dance Magazine and author of the forthcoming "Ballet 101" for Hyperion
Bill Clears the Way for Builders BEVERLY KELLEY, Beverly Kelley is chair of the communication arts department at Cal Lutheran University and host of "Ventura Talk" on radio KCLU
The Last Word Ron Rapoport, Ron Rapoport is deputy sports editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, sports commentator for NPR's "Weekend Edition" and collaborator on "Betty Garrett and Other Songs," which will be published in November by Madison Books
TV-H: Hazardous to Your Hypocrisy ROBERT DAWIDOFF, Robert Dawidoff is a professor of history at Claremont Graduate School and coauthor, with Michael Nava, of "Created Equal: Why Gay Rights Matter to America."
The Key to Population Is Poverty DONELLA H. MEADOWS, Donella H. Meadows is an adjunct professor of environmental studies at Dartmouth College
The Art Community Remains Complacent Even as Barbarians Approach Tony Kushner, Tony Kushner is a playwright who won a Pulitzer Prize for his play "Angels in America." His newest play, a translation of "A Dybbuk," is opening at the New York Shakespeare Festival next month
Fred Thompson Alan C. Miller and Glenn F. Bunting, Alan C. Miller and Glenn F. Bunting are investigative reporters in the Washington bureau of The Times
Confronting Vichy--After More Than 50 Years Charles S. Maier, Charles S. Maier teaches modern European history at Harvard and directs its Center for European Studies. His most recent book is "Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany."
Bilingual Is a Damaging Myth RON K. UNZ, Ron K. Unz, a Silicon Valley software entrepreneur, is the chairman of the "English for the Children" initiative campaign. In 1994, he challenged incumbent Gov. Pete Wilson for the Republican nomination