Commentary

It was all they had left. They were out of yellow, lined pads, so there wasn't a choice. I had to bu

Rex Harrison asked in ''My Fair Lady'': ''Why can't a woman be more like a man?'' They can, and need

People accustomed to cool, crisp sheets don't admit they're sleeping on straw.Therein is the

Congress has constitutional authority to regulate the domestic and external value of money. In the 1

British retailers are suffering from a shortage of fat men this Christmas season, Reuters reports. S

What a difference a few years make!In the 1982 race for a U.S. Senate seat in New Jersey, co

Barely 10 days after an attack on Iraq was called off at the last moment, public perceptions of the

President Clinton stopped off in South Korea this past weekend on his delayed East Asian tour. While

I write today to offer a clarification to your article titled ''APL's move could drive rates down in

Remember grandma's beef stew, where she'd toss in a little of this and a lot of that and would, some

Just before the elections, American farmers got a present of about $6 billion in cash from the feder

Ask any trade pundit in Washington what the outlook for trade legislation on Capitol Hill is next ye

Congress should resist the temptation to grant any more mass amnesties to illegal immigrants. Amnest

As you tuck into your first slice of turkey this Thanksgiving, spare a thought for the supermarket w

I've logged my sixth ''dogsbody.''The writer was Lord Jeffrey Archer, who said in a Viewpoin

Since the dollar's ascent in mid-1995 and last year's massive currency devaluations in Asia, investo

Beneath the office blocks and factories that compose its landscape today, this modern, industrious c

The Mexican peso crisis of 1994-95 and the more recent currency crises in Asia, Russia and Brazil ha

Nobody disputes the fact that Albania is Europe's poorest country. The race to replace Marx with Mam

The steel industries of the United States and Europe are reaching once again for their favorite comp

Somehow, the usual tools of economic policy have failed to stimulate the Japanese economy, which has

President Clinton hopes that foreign policy will save his presidency from the ignominy of impeachmen

Incoming House Speaker Bob Livingston has announced that the first House bill to be introduced in th

A state decision to terminate a clean-air highway pro gram offers a broader lesson about efforts to

How many electricians does it take to screw in a light bulb? That's the question I asked myself afte

A man of wisdom and vision, who happens to be my boss, was driving with his wife down Interstate 95

With much of the world gripped by financial contagion, and the U.S. economy showing signs of an immi

This is not a work of fiction, but it could be.A 76-foot motor yacht is newly constructed fo

Time is running out for shippers who want to start the ball rolling toward legislative change in the

Developing countries have essentially thrown cold water on proposals that they implement voluntary c

Christopher Lingle's vituperative attack on antitrust lawyers (''Unintended antitrust consequences,'

The top executive of one of the world's leading airlines, which has been awash in red ink for six ye

The pro-trade camp in the United States is in such disarray that it invites comparisons to the Repub

Opportunity rarely presents itself as it does now for Bill Clinton.Democrats have gained pow

Last Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I - or the Great Wa

There's plenty of fodder for those who would criticize Vice President Al Gore for his breathtakingly

It is one of the little-known rules of politics, and not just in Russia, that tall politicians surro

Every once and a while, you will see a newspaper story saying China is making great strides forward

Malcom McLean was celebrating his 85th birthday and couldn't attend the maritime industry's Admi ra

On Nov. 8, a nationalist-leftist coalition hammered together by the Democratic Revolutionary Party (