Commentary

DON'T KILLALL THE LAWYERSAs I write this letter, I find myself in a most unusual position: O

A year after it began with Thailand's devaluation of its currency, the East Asian crisis has become

Score one for purity. Scotch whisky distillers raised a triumphant glass last Thursday after the Eur

Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, whose relevance on the world stage has slipped so badly he is reduced to ho

Remember corporate welfare? Republicans in Congress promised a ''frontal assault'' against unwarrant

The Chinese, it turns out, weren't overly impressed with all the hype about President Clinton's supp

Argentine Economy Vice Minister Carlos Rodriguez resigned Wednesday night out of dissatisfaction wit

Americans treasure their independence as a nation and their personal freedom under the Constitution.

In an open letter to General Electric employees earlier this year, Chief Executive Jack Welch descri

So you step outside on midnight, Dec. 31, 1999, to welcome in the New Year and the new century and a

Japan's deepening economic and political problems have added a new and frightening dimension to the

The universal consensus is that Asia is truly a mess. Across the region, one country after another -

Foreign policy is often an intangible thing, something that we all know is important to our security

In the movie Annie Hall, Woody Allen's character laments living in Los Angeles, where the only cultu

President Clinton's summit in Beijing showed that China is not prepared to negotiate seriously on Wo

In this era of ''reinventing government,'' the ugly hands of big government often are cloaked by the

Inevitably, South Africa's currency, the rand, has been caught in the contagion affecting emerging-m

The Clinton administration can take credit for encouraging competition in important sectors of the e

A couple of panels were assembled recently by political consultant Jennifer Laszlo, and the consensu

The Clintons' failure to understand that publicly paid staff shouldn't be conducting private busines

Is Russia worth it? No country on the road to economic reform has been more disappointing - or more

Campaign finance reform is back. Declared dead in the Senate after its supporters failed to overcome

Anyone familiar with the shipping industry has heard the sentiment attributed to Thermistocles more

U.S. exports bring in billions of dollars for the U.S. economy and account for millions of high-payi

To understand why so many Americans are cynical, consider the case of John Rambo. The former longsho

MODERNIZE FREIGHTFORWARDER RULESThe battle being waged between large and small forwarders re

Martin Gilman is short, bald and ingratiating. He looks up to Anatoly Chubais, Russia's foreign debt

The Chinese economy is exposed to Japan through trade, through capital flows and through the impact

In this year of political brinkmanship, Congress has sent President Clinton a bill he can't refuse -

'DUTY FREE' ARTICLEPAINTS FALSE IMAGEYour June 16 article on airport duty-free trade (''Airp

The very public sight last week of the European Commission sitting in judgment on the business strat

In late June, the Supreme Court declared the Line Item Veto Act unconstitutional by a 6-3 vote. That

It was always more a question of when, not if, the International Monetary Fund would provide another

After he downed a few too many beers with some Bundestag colleagues one night in the 1980s, Gerhard

The Caspian basin and its energy resources are receiving great attention from governments and oil co

In less than a year, more than 65,000 U.S. industries that use hazardous substances will have to rep

After two years of delay, the proposed alliance between British Airways and American Airlines seems

The advent of a Republican Congress in 1994, and a president who told us ''the era of big government

The next time you are driving your automobile, check your rearview mirror. The eyes that you see are

Back in 1918, when Russia's new Bolshevik rulers still had the mud of the street on their boots and