What happened on March 18, 2001
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SPORTS
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
Cobra Conundrum SCOTT MARTELLE, TIMES STAFF WRITER
3 More Crises Are in Works, Thanks to State JOHN CAMPBELL, Assemblyman John Campbell (R-Irvine) is a member of the Assembly Special Committee on Energy Cost and Availability and the Oversight Committee on Electrical Energy
Choose Children Only if You Choose to Care for Them MARTY RAPP SAYLES, Marty Rapp Sayles, a resident of Chatsworth, is a lecturer in the English Department at Cal State Northridge
A Question About Learning, an Answer About Living ELIJAH J. SCHOCHET, Elijah "Eli" J. Schochet is rabbi emeritus of Shomrei Torah Synagogue in West Hills
The Convoluted Politics of Tax and 'Appreciate' TOM McCLINTOCK, State Sen. Tom McClintock (R-Thousand Oaks) represents portions of the San Fernando Valley and Ventura County
New Strategy in the War Against Drugs KATHY LONG, Kathy Long is a member of the Ventura County Board of Supervisors
In Pursuit TIMOTHY HUGHES, TIMES STAFF WRITER
A Consumer Underclass: Scorned Teens DAISY YU, Daisy Yu of Huntington Beach is in her second semester at Boston University
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REAL ESTATE
OPINION
A Chicken in Every Pot? Try a Muffler on Every Car CRISPIN SARTWELL, Crispin Sartwell teaches philosophy at the Maryland Institute, College of Art. E-mail: mindstorm@pipeline.com
Modern Farms Are Frat Parties for Germs BRIAN HALWEIL and DANI NIERENBERG, Brian Halweil and Dani Nierenberg are researchers at the Worldwatch Institute in Washington, D.C
All Our Children: The Inner Appeal of America's Primal Families Peter Wolson, Peter Wolson is a psychoanalyst and past president of the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies
Bush's Tax Logic: If A, Then B, Even When C David Mermelstein, David Mermelstein, professor of economics at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, is the editor of "The Economic Crisis Reader."
A Star Is Born, but Can She Energize a Tired Politics? Frank Gibney, Frank Gibney, president of the Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College and professor of politics, is the author of "Japan: the Fragile Superpower" and other books
South Africa Again Gives the World a Conscience Mike Clough, Mike Clough is a research associate at the Institute of International Studies at UC Berkeley
Paul Kagame Robin Wright, Robin Wright is chief diplomatic correspondent of The Times. Her latest book is "The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran."
An Ethnic Mosaic Implodes Charles Santos, Charles Santos, an energy consultant, was special assistant to the U.N. undersecretary general for special political affairs and political advisor to the United Nations Special Mission to Afghanistan in 1994 and 1995
Privatization of American Morality Eric Cohen, Eric Cohen, former managing editor of The Public Interest, is a resident fellow at the New America Foundation
From Bay of Pigs to Bay of Goats, History Would Repeat Itself DEREK CHOLLET, Derek Chollet, a research associate at George Washington University's Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, served in the State Department from 1999 until this year
The Future Americans Gregory Rodriguez, Gregory Rodriguez, a contributing editor to Opinion, is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation
Meat-Eaters Should All Go Cold Turkey PETER A. BRANDT and SAMUEL L. JACOBS, Peter A. Brandt is a Seattle-based writer. Samuel L. Jacobs, an associate professor at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey, is a member of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
BUSINESS
BOOKS
The Blasphemy of Hope JONATHAN LEVI, Jonathan Levi is a contributing writer to Book Review
Draft of a Reparations Agreement Dan Pagis, From "World Poetry," edited by Katharine Washburn, John S. Major and Clifton Fadiman (W.W. Norton: 1,338 pp., $45)
No Fist Is Big Enough to Hide the Sky SUSIE LINFIELD, Susie Linfield is a contributing writer to Book Review. She teaches in the cultural reporting and criticism program at New York University
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Writer MICHAEL TOLKIN, Michael Tolkin, a novelist and screenwriter, has just completed his third novel. He is the author of, among other works, "The Player."
The Dirty Realism of New Cuban Fiction ANN LOUISE BARDACH, Ann Louise Bardach is the author of the forthcoming "Troubled Waters: The Miami-Havana Showdown" and the editor of the forthcoming "Cuba: A Traveler's Literary Companion." She is a contributing writer to Talk magazine
'Blow Out Your Candles, Laura' D.J. CARLILE, D.J. Carlile, music critic, playwright and poet, has recently completed a new English translation of "Rimbaud: The Works," forthcoming from Xlibris in early spring
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