ANALYSIS
Immigrants: Helping or Harming the U.S.?
Jorge Amselle
Where Human Rights Don't Matter
Peter J. Herz

COMMENTARY
Black America Wakes Up to Black Africa
George B.N. Ayittey
Let's Not Forget Laos
Michael Johns

ECONOMIC WATCH
The Ins and Outs of Buyouts
Peter V. Letsou

ELECTION '96
The GOP's Long Shots
John Gizzi

MEDIA IN REVIEW
Militias: Rushing to Judgment
Lou Prato

WORLD VIEWS
Nearing the End in Bosnia?

 

LIFE AND IDEALS
Commitment to Bhopal
Mark Downey

TRAVEL
New Mexico: American Shangri-la
Herb Greer

LITERARY TREASURES RECALLED
Harold Frederic (1856-1898)
James Thompson

REVIEWS
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Prophet of Individualism
Mark Richard Barna
EMERSON
Robert D. Richardson, Jr.

A Name, a Destiny
Thomas Deignan
A FEATHER ON THE BREATH OF GOD
Sigrid Nunez

Walt Whitman: Poet of Democracy
Eric P. Olsen
WALT WHITMAN'S AMERICA
David Reynolds

CRAFT & DESIGN
A Crafty White House
Stephen Henkin

FILM
Art and Obscurity at Cannes
Scarlet Cheng

GALLERY
High Arctic Art: Six Inuit Masters
Editor

MUSIC
Sándor Recalls Bartok
John C. Tibbetts

POETRY
'There Is No Story'
Graeme Wilson

NATURE WALK
A Night Stalker
Branley Allan Branson

SCIENCE ESSAY
Vision of the Heavens: Part I: Hubble Explores the Solar System
Stephen P. Maran

SCIENTISTS: PAST AND PRESENT
George Olah: The Master of Hydrocarbons
George B. Kauffman and Laurie M. Kauffman

FOLK WISDOM
'I Heard Tell': Folklore of the Chesapeake Bay Watermen: Part Two
Peter Holden

HERITAGE
Perrin's Petition: Redressing the British Expulsion of Acadians From Canada
Louise McKinney

PATTERNS
Wind River Women: New roles emerge Among Wyoming's Tribal Peoples
Yva Momatiuk and John Eastcott

PEOPLES
Start With a Dream: Rebuilding Havana's Chinese Community
Bill Strubbe and Karen Wald
The Forest Is Everything: Mbuti Pygmies of Zaire's Ituri Forest
Rupert Watson; photographed by Wendy Stone