What happened on February 08, 2004
BOOKS
An Elizabethan power player By Marc Aronson, Marc Aronson is the author of "Witch-Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials" and "Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado."
A flu that felled millions By Alfred W. Crosby, Alfred W. Crosby, professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, is the author of many books, including "America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918."
Repeating history's mistakes By David Harris, David Harris is the author of "Our War: What We Did in Vietnam and What It Did to Us."
Life's gritty little lessons By Michael Harris, Michael Harris is a regular contributor to Book Review.
Onward, Christian soldiers By John Lukacs, John Lukacs is the author of many books, including "At the End of an Age."
Discoveries By Susan Salter Reynolds
The Bluto of screenwriters By Richard Schickel, Richard Schickel is a contributing writer to Book Review and reviews movies for Time magazine.
Achingly drawn conclusions By Scott Timberg, Scott Timberg is an arts writer at The Times and co-editor of "The Misread City: New Literary Los Angeles."
OPINION
Treasure Hunters Need Reliable Maps By William M. Arkin, William M. Arkin is a military affairs analyst who writes regularly for Opinion. E-mail: warkin@igc .org.
The Happy Error By David Gelernter, David Gelernter is a professor of computer science at Yale University and a contributing editor to the Weekly Standard.
American Policy Gave Hussein Reason to Deceive By Stanley Meisler, Stanley Meisler, author of "United Nations: The First Fifty Years," covered the U.N. for The Times in the 1990s.
Bush Family Values: War, Wealth, Oil By Kevin Phillips, Kevin Phillips' new book, just published, is "American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush."
Cheney: The Man in the Bubble By Orville Schell, Orville Schell is the author, most recently, of "Virtual Tibet" and is dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley. A longer version of this piece appears on www.tomdispatch.com
Power of the Center By John Yoo, John Yoo, a law professor at UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law, is a former Bush Justice Department official and a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
MAGAZINE
Vroom, Vroom By Emily Young, Emily Young last wrote for the magazine about the home of antiques dealer Pat McGann.
Thinking Thin By David Lansing, David Lansing is a regular contributor to the magazine.
The Kitchen Maximized By Jan Weimer, Jan Weimer is a kitchen designer and author of "Kitchen Redos, Revamps, Remodels + Replacements without Murder, Suicide or Divorce" (William Morrow, 1997).