  The study of N*'s can provide us with critical insights into the nature of
QCD in the confinement domain. The keys to progress in this domain are the
identification of its important degrees of freedom and the effective forces
between them. I report on the growing evidence in support of the flux tube
model, and comment on the connection between this model and spontaneous chiral
symmetry breaking, on the spin-dependence of the long-range confining
potential, on the evidence for short-range one gluon exchange, on instantons,
and on the one pion exchange model.
