MARC COOPER'S work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, Playboy, Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, and the London Observer. He is the host of Radio Nation, a former correspondent for The Village Voice and Spin magazine, and has worked for CBS News, PBS Frontline, and the Christian Science Monitor. Cooper is the author of Pinochet and Me and is currently a contributing editor to The Nation, a columnist for L.A. Weekly, and a regular contributor to the "Sunday Opinion" section of the Los Angeles Times.