ANALYSIS
Iran: Renewed Threat in the Persian Gulf?
Shireen T. Hunter
The Airline Industry Loses Altitude
Richard D. Gritta

COMMENTARY
Lift the Ban on Gays in the Military?: Accepting Reality
James T. Bush
Lift the Ban on Gays in the Military?: Preserving Esprit de Corps
James A. Donovan
The Income Tax: Burdens and Benefits
James L. Payne

MEDIA IN REVIEW
The New Yorker's 'Sieg Heil' to Herr Honecker
Morton A. Kaplan

 

LIFE AND IDEALS
Saving an Indian Village: The Amazing Work of Anna Hazare
Monika Nikore

NOSTALGIA
The Lore of Pioneer Crafts
Varda Avnisan; photographed by Richard Nowitz

PROFILE
Here's Looking at You, World
Julia Braun Kessler

TRAVEL
Bahrain: Beneath the Tree of Life
Richard Bangs

FEATURED BOOK: Frederick Buechner's Son of Laughter
Introduction
Editor

The Character of Saints
George Garret

Blessing and Bane
Michael D. Aeschliman

Never Beyond the Reach
Interview With Frederick Buechner

REVIEWS
He Helped the Heart to Know Itself
Woody West

An Absence of Grace
Lee Congdon
THE ORACLE AT STONELEIGH COURT
Peter Taylor

A Shamanic Tale
Ron McCoy
TOUCHIG THE FIRE
Roger Welsch

With Apologies Toward None
Charles A. Fecher
MY LIFE AS AUTHOR AND EDITOR
H. l. Mencken, edited by Jonathan Yardley

No Ordinary Magician
Charles Sheffield
GENIUS
James Gleick

The Reenchantment of a Modern Man
Richard Rubenstein
A FAR GLORY
Peter Berger

DANCE
Paul Taylor: America's Dance Wizard
Camille Hardy

DESIGN
The Art of Repetition: Contemporary Craft Studio Production
Karen S. Chambers

FILM
The Promised Land of Cinema
Fern Siegel

GALLERY
Stephen Scott Young: Human Chiaroscuro
Editor

MUSIC
Leon Fleisher: A Phoenix Rises
Tom Pniewski

PHOTOGRAPHY
Passionate Images: The World of Carl Van Vechten
John C. Tibbetts

IMPACTS
Magnetrons: Microwave Rave
Bruce V. Bigelow

NATURE WALK
The Green Flash
Craig F. Bohren

SCIENCE ESSAY
The Ocean's Greatest Gift
Kurt Stehling

FOLK WISDOM
Choyong the Cuckold: A Korean Story of Betrayal and Redemption
Jong Yil Ra

HERITAGE
New Life in a Cracked Egg: Lebanese Easter Celebrations in Northern Maine
Kathryn J. Olmstead

PEOPLES
Circles, Tracks, and Lines: Ancient knowledge Inspires Painters of the Australian Western Desert
Jennifer Isaacs
Bound to the Mountain: Elders of the Sandia People Break Centuries of Silence to Defend Their Sacred Mountain
James Burbank