Our Balkan Fumbling Grows Dangerous ADAM GARFINKLE, Adam Garfinkle is executive editor of the National Interest, a quarterly foreign policy magazine based in Washington
Loosening the Rules for How We Mourn HALI WEISS, Hali Weiss is an architect and gravestone designer in New York. She writes frequently on the need to modernize the death care industry
Keep the Lifestyle Cops Out of Bars M. LESTER O'SHEA, M. Lester O'Shea is a real estate investor in Northern California. He served on the Little Hoover Commission that in the mid-1980s studied the problem of pesticide residue on farm produce
Raid Your Mint BEV BENNETT, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES; Bennett is the author of "Dinner for Two" (Barron's, 1994)
Summer's Ending, So Let's Go Couscous BETTY ROSBOTTOM, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES; Rosbottom is the author of "American Favorites" (Chapters Publishing, 1996)