ANALYSIS
How Poverty-Stricken Is the U.S.?
Fidelis Iyebote

CAMPAIGN 2000
Will Gore or Bradley Prevail?
Ken Rudin

COMMENTARY
Books for Babies
Cynthia Grenier
Are SWAT Teams Paramilitary?: SWAT Uses Military Tactics
Diane C. Weber
Are SWAT Teams Paramilitary?: SWAT Saves Lives
Larry Glick

EYE ON THE HIGH COURT
A Stay of Execution
David C. Slade

MEDIA IN REVIEW
When Broadcasters and Cops Collide
Robert Lissit

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
Rev. Louis Sheldon: A Pulpit in Politics
Robert R. Selle

WORLD VIEWS
The Pakistan Coup

 

HEALTH
Battling Real Y2K Bugs: Travel Medicine
Daniella Ashkenazy

TRAVEL
Tourism, Russian-Style: Missing a $50 Billion Tourist Industry
Frank Kaiser

REVIEWS
An Unlikely Story
Robert F. Geary
ALL QUIET ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
Magnus Mills

The Reluctant Hypnotist
Janet Burroway
PERLMAN'S ORDEAL
Brooks Hansen

The Quest for Reagan
Lee Edwards
DUTCH
Edmund Morris

Reign of the Managerial Elites
Carmine Sarracino
AFTER LIBERALISM
Paul Edward Gottfried

WRITERS AND WRITING
With Love and Memory: A Profile of Andrei Makine
Shusha Guppy

ART
Shadow and Substance: Rembrandt Self-Portraits
Susan Fegley Osmond

DANCE
The Russian Connection: Boston Ballet's Anna-Marie Holmes
Leland Windreich

FILM
Toronto's Feast of Films
Joanna Eabbutt

GALLERY
José Chardiet
Editor
Jose Chardiet: Painting With Glass
Editor

NATURE WALK
The World's Fastest Animal
Dwight G. Smith

FOLK WISDOM
Viking Fury
Stephen Henkin

HERITAGE
A Gift at New Year: Reclaiming Scottish Hogmanay
B.R. Forbes

PEOPLES
Recurring Happiness
Rachel Hajar
The Whisper of Stars: The Horse Is a Mainstay of Siberian Life
Bryan Alexander