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What happened on May 30, 1999

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BOOKS

  • Remembering, By W. S. Merwin

  • The Genius  By Grover Sales, \o7 Grover Sales is the author of "Jazz: America's Classical Music" and a lecturer in jazz studies at Stanford University and the Jazz School in Berkeley\f7

  • Reading L.a.

  • The One and Only  By Michelle Krisel, \o7 Michelle Krisel is assistant to Placido Domingo, artistic director of the Washington Opera and the artistic director-designate and principal guest conductor of the Los Angeles Opera\f7

  • Air Guitar  By Jon Wiener, \o7 Jon Wiener, who teaches history at UC Irvine, is the author of "Come Together: John Lennon in His Time."\f7

  • An American Spirit  By Joseph Horowitz, \o7 Joseph Horowitz is the author of five books, including "Understanding Toscanini," "Wagner Nights" and "The Post-Classical Predicament."\f7

  • Mr. B  By Ted Libbey, \o7 Ted Libbey is the author of "The NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection" and the "NPR Encyclopedia of Classical Music." He is heard every week on National Public Radio's "Performance Today."\f7

  • More ! Again !  By Michael Frank, \o7 Michael Frank is a contributing writer to Book Review\f7

  • The Revelation, By Lucia Perillo

  • Summer Reading By Adam Hochschild, \o7 Adam Hochschild is the author of "King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa" (Houghton Mifflin) and "Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels" (Syracuse University Press)\f7

  • Sicilian Seductions  By George Armstrong, \o7 George Armstrong was for 28 years the Rome correspondent for the Guardian and was a regular contributor to the Economist\f7

  • Composing Discord  By Jonathan Levi

  • Southern California Rating:

  • The Worst of Times  By Eugen Weber, \o7 Eugen Weber is the author, most recently, of "Apocalypses."\f7

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OPINION

  • A Habit of Distrust  By Maurice Meisner, \o7 Maurice Meisner, visiting professor at the London School of Economics, is author of "Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic."\f7

  • Cozying Up to World's Libyas By Mike Clough, \o7 Mike Clough is a research associate at the Institute of International Studies at UC Berkeley\f7

  • A Habit of Distrust  By Robert S. Norris, \o7 Robert S. Norris is a military analyst with the Natural Resources Defense Council and coauthor of "British, French and Chinese Nuclear Weapons."\f7

  • Charter Reform Becomes an Insider Struggle By Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, \o7 Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a contributing editor to Opinion, is a senior associate at the School of Politics and Economics at Claremont Graduate University and a political analyst for KCAL-TV\f7

  • Suspicion of Foreigners Leads to Rights Crackdown at Home By Paula R. Newberg, \o7 Paula R. Newberg is the author of a number of books on south Asian politics, including "Judging the State: Courts and Constitutional Politics in Pakistan."\f7

  • Culture Wars  By Michael Kazin, \o7 Michael Kazin is currently a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center. He is the coauthor of "America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s," due out this fall\f7

  • An Authoritarian Party Reinvents Itself Through Democracy By David Ayon, \o7 David Ayon teaches U.S. and Mexican politics at Loyola Marymount and is working on a book about ethnic groups and foreign policy\f7

  • The Scary Politics of "The Phantom Menace" By Andrei Cherny, \o7 Andrei Cherny, former senior speechwriter to Vice President Al Gore, is editor of Blueprint: Ideas for a New Century\f7

  • Ron Unz  By Scott Holleran, \o7 Scott Holleran has written about politics and health care for the Miami Herald and the Philadelphia Inquirer\f7

  • Griego for the 14th District

  • The School Board Needs Hayes

  • Turn City Hall Around

  • Heroes Who Have No Day  By John Tirman, \o7 John Tirman is executive director of the Winston Foundation for World Peace in Washington\f7

  • Elections Alone Aren't Enough  By Anugerah Pekerti, \o7 Anugerah Pekerti is a faculty member and former president of the Institute for Management Education and Development in Indonesia and is chair of the board for World Vision Indonesia, a Christian humanitarian aid organization\f7

  • You Have a Lot to Say and We're Listening  By Narda Zacchino

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