ANALYSIS
Soviet Words, Soviet Deeds: Miles Apart in Afghanistan
Elie D. Krakowski
Assessing the Results of the 27^th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Alexander Shtromas
Reading the Tea Leaves: Hong Kong's Destiny
Claiborne Clark
A Change in the Wind Concerning Soviet Jews?
David A. Harris
Can Nakasone and Gorbachev Deliver the Peace Treaty?
Tetsuya Kataoka
South Korea: To Some the Philippines, To Many Another Vietnam
William L. Scully
Moscow's Hard Lesson in South Yemen
John Rees

COMMENTARY
Castro and Carter: Undoing Democracy in Central America
Sheila Louise Rees
Chile: Heating Up Again
Allan C. Brownfeld and Staunton Calvert
Nuclear-Free Pacific's Hidden Price Tag
Laura Reynolds
Doing the Détente Hustle
Yossef Bodansky
Political Recycling: The Dictator Glut
Mayer Nudell

 

FASHION
The Necktie in History and Haberdashery
Anne Grasso

GARDENS
The Magical Charm of Flowering Perennials
Eric Rosenthal

GOURMET
The Art of Food Sculpting
Jade Wu

HEALTH
Taking the Plunge
Carol Ann Pearce
Sidestepping Senility
Rise Jill Miller

HUMOR
I Still Hear You, Emily Post
Ralph Schoenstein

INTERIORS
Questions of Interior Design
Elaine Brooks

TRAVEL
Mississippi: Riverboatin' - Getting to the Heart of America's Heartland
William F. Willoughby

FEATURED BOOK: Thomas Peters and Robert Waterman's In Search of Excellence
American Management: Diagnosing the Unwilling Patient
Tom Peters

The Gospel According to Peters
Judith Garwood

Economics Without Numbers
Philip Keisling

In Search of the Excellent Heart
Lewis Austin

REVIEWS
The Literature on Terrorism
Mayer Nudell

Vile Bodies
Gregory Wolfe
LESS THAN ZERO
Bret Easton Ellis
BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY
Jay McInerney

School Daze: The Disruptive Effects of Teacher Training
Carl W. Salser
EDUCATION'S SMOKING GUN
Reginald G. Damerell

Terrorism: The Low Frontier
L. Francis Bouchey
TERRORISM AS STATE-SPONSORED COVERT WARFARE
Ray S. Cline and Yonah Alexander
FIGHTING BACK WINNING THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM
Neil Livingstone and Terrell E. Arnold
HYDRA OF CARNAGE
Uri Ra'anan, Robert Pfaltzgraff, Jr., Richard Schultz, Ernst Halperin, Igor Lukes

DANCE
Sadler's Wells: Big Ballet as Romantics Dream It Can Be
Linda A. Small

FESTIVAL
The Spoleto Festival
Gregory Speck

FILM
Kindergarten
Debra Wishik
Lady Jane: A Classical Presentation
Tom O'Brien

MUSIC
The Prague Chamber Orchestra in Concert
Michael Davis
Andre Watts Fires Brilliant Opening Salvo in Liszt Anniversary Fireworks
Tom Pniewski
A Marilyn Horne Recital
Emerson Randolph
A Liszt of Surprises
Tom Pniewski
An Interview With Tenor Peter Hofmann
Paul Gregory

THEATER
The Kabuki Tradition
Onoe Kuroemon II

IMPACTS
Electron Microscope Reveals the Tiniest Worlds
Michael Woods

NATURE WALK
Desert in Bloom
Ronald J. Kass

SCIENCE AND SPIRIT
The Complementary Nature of Religion and Science
Miguel R. Covian

SCIENCE AND VALUES
The Scientist at His Last Quarter Hour
Louis de Broglie

SCIENTISTS: PAST AND PRESENT
Athelstan Spilhaus: Ideas, Ideas, Ideas
Cheryl M. Wetzstein

FOLK WISDOM
The Holy Humor of Bali's Clowns
Ron Jenkins

HERITAGE
Ukrainians in America
Eloise Paananen and Halyna Myroniuk
The Ties That Bind: A History of Mennonite Migration to America
Richard MacMaster

PEOPLES
The Zoroastrians
Young Oon Kim