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What happened on August 22, 1999

BOOKS

  • Reading L.A.

  • Happy Chaos  By Richard Howard, Richard Howard is the author of "Trappings," his 11th volume of poems. He is a professor of practice in the writing division of the School of the Arts at Columbia University

  • The Search By Kwesi Brew

  • Look Homeward, Angel  By Zachary Karabell, Zachary Karabell is a contributing writer to Book Review and the author of the forthcoming "The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election" (Alfred A. Knopf)

  • Mind Over Matter  By Martin Gardner, Martin Gardner is the author of numerous books, including "The Healing Revelations of Mary Baker Eddy." His most recent book, "Visitors From Oz," is a fantasy about the adventures of Dorothy, Scarecrow and Tin Woodman in the United States

  • All Shook Up  By Jonathan Levi, Jonathan Levi is a contributing writer to Book Review

  • What Went Wrong in Rwanda?  By David Rieff, David Rieff is the author of several books, including "Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West," and is co-editor of "Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know" (W.W. Norton)

  • Haiku #234 By Richard Wright

  • Cries and Whispers  By Thomas Curwen, Thomas Curwen is the deputy editor of Book Review

  • Southern California Rating: FICTION 1. BLACK NOTICE \o7 by...

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  • A Tale of Three Mayors  By Kevin Starr, Kevin Starr is State Librarian of California and University Professor at USC. He is currently working on "The Coast: California in the 1990s."

  • Echoes of an Empire in Free Fall By Michael A. Reynolds, Michael A. Reynolds is a Fulbright scholar in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He has lived, studied and worked in Russia, the North Caucasus and Turkey

  • Don't Blame Teachers For Low Computer Use In Classrooms By Larry Cuban, Larry Cuban is a professor of education at Stanford University

  • When Should a Dam be Breached? By Daniel B. Botkin, Daniel B. Botkin, president of the Center for the Study of the Environment and professor of biology at UC Santa Barbara, is the author of "Passage of Discovery: The American Rivers Guide to the Missouri River of Lewis and Clark."

  • Fewer Nations Are Making War By Ted Robert Gurr and Ernest J. Wilson Iii, Ernest J. Wilson III is director of the University of Maryland's Center for International Development and Conflict Management. Ted Robert Gurr, a professor of government and politics, is director of the center's Minorities at Risk Project

  • Strange to Say, but Neurotics Are Preferable By Peter Wolson, Peter Wolson, a psychoanalyst, is director of training at the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies

  • William Ivey  By Steve Proffitt, Steve Proffitt, a contributing editor to Opinion, is director of the JSM+ New Media Lab

  • Creating a Memory of Germany's Past By James E. Young, James E. Young, professor of English and Judaic studies at the University of Massachusetts, is the author of "Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust" and "The Texture of Memory."

  • Turmoil at the Top

  • Crossroads for Russia

  • Despite Reforms, 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Continues to be Anti-Gay  By Janet E. Halley, Janet E. Halley is a professor of law at Stanford University and the author of "Don't: A Reader's Guide to the Military's Anti-Gay Policy" (Duke University Press, 1999)

  • Cheating in School Reflects Basic Confusion in Society  By Mari Pearlman, Mari Pearlman is vice president of teaching and learning for the Educational Testing Service, which conducts and scores the SAT examination nationwide

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