ANALYSIS
Cuba on the Brink?
Tom Carter

COMMENTARY
Do We Need a Tobacco Bill? Emphatically Yes, and Now
John Lynch, M.d.
Do We Need a Tobacco Bill?: The Issue Isn't Kids but Money
Thomas Humber
How to Improve the Jury System
Thomas F. Hogan, Gregory E. Mize, And Kathleen Clark

ECONOMIC WATCH
The Role of the Rating Agencies
Marsha Bertrand

ELECTION '98
Scalded by Scandal
Paul Bedard

EYE ON THE HIGH COURT
Equality, Truth, and the American Way
David C. Slade

MEDIA IN REVIEW
Aversion to Africa
David W. Jones

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
Charlton Heston: Hollywood Conservative
Robert R. Selle

WORLD VIEWS
The Summit of the Americas

 

LIFE AND IDEALS
Making Connections: Navajo Kids From Utah Befriend Khanty Kids in Siberia
Scott S. Warren

TRAVEL
Arizona: Searching for Spirit in Sedona - A Magic Soul off the Beaten Path
Judith Lindbergh

COMMENTARY
Expectations Lost and Found: Commentary on Peter Carey's Jack Maggs
Robert Ross

FEATURED BOOK
Introduction
Editor

REVIEWS
Limning the Good Citizen
Lloyd Eby
CIVILITY
Stephen L. Carter

Only the Lonely
Shusha Guppy
VISITORS
Anita Brookner

Nature Versus Nurture Revisited
Ricki Lewis And Barry A. Palevitz
LIVING WITH OUR GENES
Dean Hamer and Peter Copeland

Solzhenitsyn: Consumed by His Mission
W. Bruce Lincoln
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
D.M. Thomas

Who Prospers?
Edward S. Shapiro
THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS
David S. Landes

WRITERS AND WRITING
The Secret Sharer: A Profile of Anita Brookner
Shusha Guppy

ART
Rothko: Emotion in the Abstract
Stephen May

CRAFT & DESIGN
Amish: Men in Black, Craft in Color
Alicia Waite

DANCE
Dancing the Universal Language
Stephen Henkin

GALLERY
Elizabeth Catlett: The Power of Form
Editor

NATURE WALK
Lavas and Life
Ian Skilling

SCIENCE ESSAY
Darkening the Sun
Craig DeForest

SCIENTISTS: PAST AND PRESENT
Grace Brush: Revelations From the Dirt
Kate O'Rourke

FOLK WISDOM
Share in the Light: Native American Stories of Creation
Terri J. Andrews

HERITAGE
Good Living: Milwaukee's Annual German Fest
Michael Perry

PATTERNS
The Amazon's People: Among Brazil's Rain Forest Tribes
Mark Downey

PEOPLES
More Noble Than Wood: Catalonia's Cork Industry
James C. Townsend; Photographed By Robin Townsend
The People Trust in Them: The Ritual Hunters of West Africa
Ben Barber