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May 1997 Issue

	The Parental Rights Amendments LETTERS TO THE EDITOR What a Serious Reader Wants Germany and the Scientologists
	SPECIAL REPORT--UNLEASHING TAX REFORM Keep It Simple: The Flat Tax Joe Cobb The U.S. Tax Code: End It or Mend It? Sue Carls A National Sales Tax David R. Burton Introduction What Is a 'Value-Added Tax,' Anyway? Cliff Massa ANALYSIS Using Audits to Intimidate Shelley Davis Pakistan at 50: Asia's Rusty Linchpin Steven Barmazel World Freedom: Growing but Fragile Charles Graybow COMMENTARY Republicans and the Education Debate Charles L. Heatherly ECONOMIC WATCH The Role of Exchange Rates Melany Klinck MEDIA IN REVIEW The War Against War Correspondents Georgie Anne Geyer WORLD VIEWS The Death of Deng
	PROFILE The Last Kamikaze: The Life of Eiji Imazato Will Ferguson TRAVEL Ireland's Western Wilds: Place of Beauty, Place of Trails Bill Strubbe TRENDS Reconnecting America: Turning Abandoned Rails Into Community Trails Karen-Lee Ryan
	BOOKS FROM ABROAD The Price of the Fiction Charles R. Larson LAJJA (Shame) Taslima Nasrin, translated from the Bengali by Tutul Gupta FEATURED BOOK: Michael Dorris' Cloud Chamber Introduction Editor Tree of Thoughtfulness Jay Parini REVIEWS Compassionate Vultures George Ayittey THE ROAD TO HELL Michael Maren Does Culture Count? Roger Fontaine THE PAN-AMERICAN DREAM Lawrence E. Harrison How Hitler Conquered Germany Morton A. Kaplan HITLER'S THIRTY DAYS TO POWER Henry Ashby Turner Jr. The Beautiful Voyage Linda Simon THE SASKIAD Brian Hall Heart of Darkness Eric P. Olsen THE DIVORCE CULTURE Barbara Dafoe Whitehead

ART
Subliminal Sight: Five Belgian Moderns
Susan Fegley Osmond

ARTS WATCH
Let the V-chips Fall Where They May
Tom O'Brien

GALLERY
Michael Lucero: Beyond Clay, Beyond Culture
Editor

INTERARTS
Anchorage Arts
Stephen Henkin

MUSIC
Adapt and Flourish: The Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
Dan Marshall

PHOTOGRAPHY
China: The Big Picture: The Photography of Lois Conner
Scarlet Cheng

AT THE EDGE
Surgery Without Knives
Craig Dees
Violence and the Brain
Norbert Myslinski

NATURE WALK
Melodies on Wings
Jeffrey Cynx

SCIENCE ESSAY
Nuclear Power: Blessing or Blight?
Alok Kumar

SCIENTISTS: PAST AND PRESENT
Louis de Broglie: Seeing the Waves Within
Varadaraja V. Raman

CROSSROADS
Chemical Chokehold: Azerbaijan Confronts the Soviet Legacy of Pollution
Gordon Feller

FOLK WISDOM
Living Treasures: Kite Flying and Traditional Korean Handicrafts
Peggy Robbins
Coming From the Earth: Foodways of the Tumbuka of Eastern Zaire
Mwizenge S. Tembo

HERITAGE
Hornet's Nest: Charlotte's Declaration of Independence
Craig J. Renner

PATTERNS
Seen Through a Window: Viewing Chile's Regional Character
Rhonda Klevansky

PEOPLES
Renewed Promise: Cori's Festive Flag-Wavers
Jeanne Conte

DO WE NEED THE PARENTAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT?
Introduction
Editor
Parental Rights: An Overview
Colby M. May
The Parental Rights Amendment
Shannon Royce
What's Wrong With Parental Rights?
Patrick Steadman And Fofi Mendez

ESSAYS
Word Wars
John M. Love
Why Shakespeare Is a Hard Sell in English Departments
Sanford Pinsker