What happened on July 12, 1998
BOOKS
Judgment Day By Harry Shearer, \o7 Harry Shearer is an actor, writer and director who covered the Simpson civil trial for Slate magazine\f7
Against All Odds By Edward Lazarus, \o7 Edward Lazarus is the author of "Closed Chambers: The First Eyewitness Account of the Epic Struggles Inside the Supreme Court" (Times Books)\f7
Endgame By Don Franzen, \o7 Don Franzen is an entertainment attorney whose practice has included trial and appellate work in federal and state courts\f7
Dreamscapes By Tom Vanderbilt, \o7 Tom Vanderbilt is a contributing editor of the Baffler and has written for Metropolis, Preservation and Landscape Architecture. He is the author of "The Sneaker Book: Anatomy of an Industry and an Icon."\f7
Lost and Found By Brian Fagan, \o7 Brian Fagan is the author of many books on archaeology, including "From Black Land to Fifth Sun," "Time Detectives" and "Into the Unknown." General editor of "The Oxford Companion to Archaeology," he is a professor of anthropology at UC Santa Barbara\f7
How the Scopes Trial Framed the Modern Debate Over Science and Religion By Edward Mcglynn Gaffney Jr., \o7 Edward McGlynn Gaffney Jr. is a scholar-in-residence at Pepperdine University School of Law, where he is working on a manuscript for Oxford University Press called "Should Churches Be Taxed?"\f7
Brave New World By Karen Stabiner, \o7 Karen Stabiner is the author of "To Dance With the Devil: The New War on Breast Cancer."\f7
Brother's Keeper By Jean Hanff Korelitz, \o7 Jean Hanff Korelitz is the author of a novel, "The Sabbathday River," to be published next year\f7
Tough Love By Michael Harris, \o7 Michael Harris is an editor at the Riverside Press-Enterprise and a freelance writer\f7
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
El Scapegoat By Bob Pool, TIMES STAFF WRITER
High-Wire Act By Julie Tamaki, TIMES STAFF WRITER
It's a Brave New Fund-Raising World By Denny Freidenrich, Denny Freidenrich has lived in Orange County since 1970. He can be reached via e-mail at freidenric@bigplanet.com
Exemptions Would Take Heat Off Ban on Smoking in Taverns By David Ezra, David Ezra is a partner in an Irvine law firm. He has written several law review articles on the conflict between smokers and nonsmokers
Eastin's Reliance on Old Stats Does Schools a Disservice By George Runner, \o7 George Runner is a Republican assemblyman representing the Antelope Valley and portions of the Santa Clarita Valley\f7
The More Homeowners File Suit . . . By William Fulton, \o7 William Fulton is editor and publisher of California Planning & Development Report and author of "The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles."\f7
Local Empowerment Key to Any Measure's Success By David W. Fleming, \o7 David W. Fleming, an attorney, was Mayor Richard Riordan's co-chair for city charter reform. Fleming is chairman of the Economic Alliance of the San Fernando Valley, a Los Angeles city fire commissioner, a member of the California Transportation Commission and a former chair of Valley Industry & Commerce Assn\f7
41 Miles and an Ocean of Possibilities By Doug Adrianson, \o7 Doug Adrianson is editor of the Times Ventura County Edition editorial pages. Contact him at (805) 653-7580 or by e-mail at doug.adrianson@latimes.com\f7
Surrounded by Suburbia By Michael Ableman, Michael Ableman is director of Fairview Gardens and founder of the Center for Urban Agriculture
OPINION
A Tale Of Two Downtowns By Eric H. Monkkonen, \o7 Eric H. Monkkonen, a professor of policy studies and history at UCLA, is author of "America Becomes Urban."\f7
Whose Test Is It, Anyway? By Sigrid Bathen, \o7 Sigrid Bathen is senior editor at the California Journal, a magazine about politics and government\f7
The Sins Of The Journalist By Daniel Schorr, \o7 Daniel Schorr is a senior news analyst for National Public Radio. He covered Watergate and the CIA investigations for CBS and was senior Washington correspondent for CNN\f7
New Grand Strategy Uses Lofty and Material Desires By G. John Ikenberry, \o7 G. John Ikenberry is professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania and nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution\f7
A Blow to Africa's Renaissance By Chris Landsberg, \o7 Chris Landsberg is deputy director of the Center for Policy Studies\f7
Enemy Is Bureaucrats, HMO or Feds By William Schneider, \o7 William Schneider, a contributing editor to Opinion, is a political analyst for CNN\f7
The Math Behind Race, Crime and Sentencing Statistics By John Allen Paulos, \o7 John Allen Paulos, a professor of mathematics at Temple University, is the author of "A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper" and the forthcoming "Once Upon a Number."\f7
Ricardo Salinas Pliego By Sergio Munoz, \o7 Sergio Munoz is an editorial writer for The Times\f7
Bigger Court Won't Be Speedier By Gerald F. Uelmen, \o7 Gerald F. Uelmen is a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law. He serves on the board of directors for the California Habeas Corpus Resource Center and offered testimony in opposition to the Senate bill\f7
Bureaucratic Folly Costs Dearly By Luis Rubio, \o7 Luis Rubio directs the Center of Research for Development, Mexico City. E-mail: lfrubio@compuserve.com\f7