A Shot in the Dark MICHAEL HARRIS, Michael Harris is a regular contributor to Book Review.
On a Wing and in Verse JONATHAN LEVI, Jonathan Levi is a contributing writer to Book Review.
Irony Lives! LARRY BENSKY, Larry Bensky hosts "Sunday Salon," heard on KPFK-FM (90.7) from 9-11 a.m. and teaches mass communications at Cal State Hayward.
Paranoia Strikes Deep MICHAEL PARKS, Michael Parks is the director of the School of Journalism at USC's Annenberg School for Communication. He was the editor of The Times from 1997 to 2000 and a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign corespondent for the paper, covering China, Russia, South Africa and the Middle East.
Springtime for Hitler MICHAEL FRANK, Michael Frank is a contributing writer to Book Review.
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A Sense of Time and Place JONATHAN KIRSCH, Jonathan Kirsch, a contributing writer to the Book Review, is the author of, most recently, "The Woman Who Laughed at God: The Untold History of the Jewish People."
All Security, All the Time BRUCE J. SCHULMAN, Bruce J. Schulman, who teaches history and American studies at Boston University, is the author of "The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Politics and Society."
Musharraf's Faustian Bargain MANSOOR IJAZ, Mansoor Ijaz, an American of Pakistani origin, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Any Which Way but Proper KRISTINE MCKENNA, Kristine McKenna is a Los Angeles writer. A second volume of her collected interviews will be released later this year.