ANALYSIS
NAFTA's Strange Bedfellows
Stuart Rothenberg
Australia: Toward 2000
Julian Weiss
Crime Washing over America's Shores
Austin Case
A Farewell to Conventional Arms?
Aharon Klieman

COMMENTARY
Clinton's Foreign Policy: Uncertain Trumpet
Adam M. Garfinkle
Birth Families or Adoptive Families?: Nature Over Nurture
Susan Miller-Havens
Birth Families or Adoptive Families?: Accepting Adoption
Mary Beth Seader

FORUM
Japan's New Destiny, Part 2

WORLD VIEWS
Clinton's Health Care Prescription

 

FOOD
An Arkansas Christmas
Linda Joyce Forristal

PASTIMES
A Colonial Christmas Celebration
Varda Avnisan

TRAVEL
A Holy Mountain
Marjorie Hope

FEATURED BOOK: John Jakes' Homeland
Hope Springs Eternal
James Thompson

Dedicated to the Craft
Russ Braley

Introduction
Editor

REVIEWS
Who Are the Mexican Americans?
Daniel James
MEXICAN AMERICANS
Peter Skerry

Memoirs of a Financial Fireman
John Attarian
FULL FAITH AND CREDIT
L. William Seidman

Return of the Big Lie
Alan J. Levine
DENYING THE HOLOCAUST
Deborah E. Lipstadt

The Man Who Invented Christmas
Jack Ketch
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Charles Dickens

Remembrance of Things Past
Linda Simon
THE LITTLE TOWN WHERE TIME STOOD STILL
Bohumil Hrabal, translated by James Naughton

The Real Black Elk
Ron McCoy
BLACK ELK?
Michael F. Steltenkamp

Regulating the Electronic Netherworld
Lawrence Person
THE HACKER CRACKDOWN
Bruce Sterling

Malarkey Mania
John Bremer
FAKES, FRAUDS AND OTHER MALARKEY
Kathryn Lindskoog, Illustrations by Patrick Wynne

CRAFT & DESIGN
Ken Price, California Clay Master
Karen S. Chambers

DANCE
Ballet Breathes Again
Octavio Roca

FILM
Two Takes on Cinema: Scorsese and Altman
Lloyd Eby

MUSIC
Leonie Rysanek: In a Blaze of Glory
Matthew Gurewitsch

NATURE WALK
A Gift from Mexico
H. Marc Cathey And Jacqueline Heriteau

SCIENCE ESSAY
Exotic Invaders
James T. Carlton

SCIENTISTS: PAST AND PRESENT
Les Kaufman: The Fishery Rescue Physician
Vince Magers

HERITAGE
A Struggle to Be Heard: The Unique Role of Senegal's Independent Press
Ben Barber
A World Eclipsed: Economic Changes Cause an Identity Crisis for Basque Americans
William A. Douglass

PEOPLES
The Game Is Afoot: Holiday Season Tributes to Sherlock Holmes
John C. Tibbetts
The Boy Bishop: Saint Nicholas in Christian and Muslim Lands
Paul J. Magnarella