Commentary

Robert Mugabe, the guerrilla leader-turned president who has run the African nation of Zimbabwe for

urope has received some early rude reminders that the launch of its new currency, the euro, isn't ab

Cross a raccoon with a ''Slinky,'' and the result would look like a ferret.True, I'm not a f

Not long ago, we in Geneva were celebrating the 50th anniversary of the World Trade Organization and

Many economic experts have been predicting that South Korea will be the first of the Asian Tigers to

Remember the great management scare?Bosses came dangerously close to being fashionable.Forme

f your 10-year-old decides next month to deliver a valentine to his secret sweetheart by putting it

Science has opened a fresh path to profitability for the funeral industry, which for some time has b

So now we hear from Gregory Craig, the president's lawyer, that in addition to all the lawyerly reas

There was no news from the State Department on Jan. 4 - no news, at least, for my favorite throng of

This is not just another new year. For South Africa, 1999 is set to be momentous by any standard: th

Anyone who has sat on a train in a crowded station knows the feeling.As the train next to yo

It may come as a big surprise to learn that Southeast Asian economies are not doing as badly as the

ven as they peer cockily into the economic future, top federal officials are studiously ignoring th

As Undersecretary of State Stuart Eizenstat noted recently, ''America has not paid enough attention

Cynthia L. Brown, in representing the American Shipbuilding Association ('' 'US-build' requirement v

he problem with trying to please everyone is that you often wind up pleasing no one. But if you're m

Nearly 180 years ago, Lord Byron wrote in his journal, ''The best of prophets is the past.'' This se

''You can't always get what you want; but if you try,sometimes - you justmight find - you ge

The other day a group of members of Parliament from Scotland came into my office and asked why the U

It was the ancient Greek lawyer Aesop who popularized the practice of dramatizing his courtroom poin

f the Year 2000 computer glitch proves to be a major problem - a big ''if'' - it still may have a br

razilian President Henrique Cardoso says the exchange-rate policy change that his government announc

For some reason, the world's dairy farmers seem to lack faith that people really like milk, butter a

Ninety percent of Fortune 500 companies have an Internet presence today, but our research shows only

If President Clinton and the Congress want to convince Americans they should continue to support fre

When young Sam Walton opened his first ''Walton's 5 & 10'' in Bentonville, Ark., back in the 1950s,

A big question that has gone unexamined is whether educators are actually doing students a disservic

Argentina is being called the ''new tiger'' of South America in press reports that focus on the Buen

Managing money has never been a simple task. In fact, I usually leave such things to folks with more

Dean Kleckner's Dec. 29 letter (Page 8A) in support of Sen. Brownback's legislation (S.2390) to refo

e has been embargoed, bombed and backed into a political corner. Yet Saddam Hussein remains firmly

reativity may be impressive, but it doesn't always carry the day - at least with the Internal Revenu

The euro may be as unfamiliar to Americans as the metric system, but for the 290 million people in 1

There's no paucity of trade proposals about to be spread before the new Congress.Tonight, Pr

There is a direct relationship between long hours standing watch on the bridge of a ship and the qua

For years, reporters have heard all sorts of anecdotal horror stories about rail service.For

European and U.S. portfolio managers and investors have been programmed by textbooks to believe that

There was a time not so long ago when Americans worked 9-to-5, were happy to have a job and looked f

critical moment looms for three Atlantic seaports, a moment of potentially powerful economic impact.