Commentary

Who says there are no second acts in American life? Certainly not the third-generation hopefuls tryi

The Clinton administration, applying its theory that all good things should be subsidized with tax d

Everyone has had the experience of hearing something different from what was said, or watching someo

The use of short-term capital controls to curb ''hot money'' flows to developing countries is an ide

Leaving aside increased income inequality, it is widely acknowledged that the last few years have be

Boris Yeltsin, the Russian president who thinks Japan and Germany are nuclear powers, predicted Worl

One of the great World Trade Organization success stories has been its judicial system, which forces

Alexei Ilyushenko, the prisoner the Russian government would rather forget, sits in a three-man cell

The United States and Japan reached a historic aviation agreement last week that promises to send mo

Until recently, America's public managers have too often resigned themselves to the legal entrenchme

No one can reliably predict our economic or political future because actual events will depend on wh

Just as analysts thought the Asian crisis was over, the word from Seoul is that the Korean governmen

Struck by millennium fever, Sir Leon Brittan, the European Union's top trade official, has a grand v

British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrives here this week at a time of political peril for his friend

People who smoke at work are likely to be marked down on job performance because of it, reducing bot

Television's Oprah Winfrey didn't invent the game of scaring people about their food anymore than Bi

In his State of the Union speech late last month, President Clinton said the ''overriding'' environm

On Tuesday, Brazil announced a record January trade deficit of $717 million, up from $413 million a

COMPANY REPUTATIONNO LAUGHING MATTER We are writing regarding the article titled ''Happy New

China is renewing its efforts to woo its most implacable foe, Taiwan, less than two years after test

In his State of the Union speech, President Clinton committed his administration to acting to end ch

The preliminary agreement reached Friday on new U.S.-Japan bilateral aviation rights leaves much to

The United States is being asked to deposit $18 billion with the International Monetary Fund to enab

LOWER PORT ASSESSMENTSREDUCE EVERYONE'S COSTSI am writing in response to a letter from John

Red lights flashing and sirens blaring, the cars roar up to the barricade of a heavily fortified whi

Customs has a new plan to root out drugs from commercial shipments by helping Latin American enforce

When President Clinton was plunged into a new scandal recently, France scoffed. A head of state in t

Like a new car that unexpectedly develops serious faults, the 1997 model of globalization has been r

Britain is facing one of the knottiest questions in its long history of dealing with its neighbors:

The rise in residential telephone rates as an outgrowth of the telecommunications act has caught law

GOLD BUGSDON'T SHINEThe letter published Dec. 8 on Page 6A written by Alfred Peterson in res

After D-Day in 1944, Winston Churchill said, ''This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of

Numbers in Washington are not right or wrong. They are either useful or they are not. That's how one

Social Security may have an uncertain future in the United States - President Clinton's announcement

If bandits staked out a U.S. business district and obstructed customers, there would be hell to pay.

Once again, as has happened almost annually since Iraq lost the Persian Gulf War, we are on the brin

In today's debates over tobacco control, it's easy to mistake tactics for goals.Tactics are

As the 15th People's Congress approaches, the Chinese government stands at a crossroads. The directi

We should have seen the Asian crisis coming. You do not have to be a financial analyst to know that

Organized labor, which defeated the White House on ''fast-track'' trade authority last year, has bee