Commentary

In Russian villages, people say the law is like a sleigh in winter - a clever judge can steer it eit

Congress once again has come tantalizingly close to overhauling federal regulation of the maritime i

Like a big kid in a candy shop, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl thundered into a convention hall stuff

What do hamburgers have to do with air raid shelters? A report recently commissioned by the mayor

A former international law professor of mine was fond of saying there is little rhyme or reason to t

Greece and Turkey, out of harmony for much of this century, have at last struck a chord that is musi

Beware the law of unintended consequences.The recent budget deal slashed the capital gains t

Asia is both the fastest growing economic region and the fastest growing telecommunications market i

Although the White House nomination of William Clyburn Jr. to the Surface Transportation Board is un

Southeast Asia's most interesting and controversial leader, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohama

The draft of a major business-backed bill to halt, or at least slow, the spread of unilateral U.S. e

The Panama Canal will run just as smoothly in the hands of the Panamanian government as it has as a

TAIWAN'S WTO ENTRYNOT IN US INTERESTI read with interest Greg Mastel's article, ''Let Taiwan

In assessing the Russian economy between now and 2000, it's important to focus on three issues - the

Remember when ''Japan'' on the bottom of a knickknack was a source of derision? And when the land of

Value is in the eye of the beholder. So, too, are risk and confidence, those ideas on which the mark

Ukraine is bigger than France, with a population of 51 million, but six years after the Soviet Union

As many as one-third of American companies allow their workers to dress casually every day, and the

Researchers have recently documented the unwanted spread of a European insect that was introduced in

If chief executive officers of the nation's largest corporations ran the country, consumers might no

NO NEED TO WORRY ABOUTHONG KONG'S TAX REVIEWYour Aug. 11 article on the review of the profit

Waterfronts in most countries are mucky and that's even before you consider the quality of the wa-

The European Union's top farm official, Franz Fischler, has a problem with world trade rules and log

When the government began its investigation of the Union Pacific Railroad following a series of fata

Governments have traditionally discharged their role as the protector of public welfare using reams

Although the United Parcel Service strike is over, the impact on other companies is just starting.

Beware the law of unintended consequences.The recent budget deal slashed the capital gains t

C&II COULD BEBOX SHIPPING ADVOCATEThis is in response to Don Becker's Notebook column publis

Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo's ''cohabitation'' with the opposition that controls the Congress

Torn between its apartheid past and a multiracial future, South Africa's still predominantly white N

''Is Social Security going to be there when I retire?'' the woman asked.A television produce

President Clinton faces the prospect of becoming the first U.S. president since Herbert Hoover who l

This ancient Baltic city basking in one of the hottest, longest summers on record has temporarily ta

The untimely death of Diana, Princess of Wales, has demonstrated that a world benumbed to the traged

Following minor corrections in Julius Caesar's calendar by his nephew, Augustus, timekeeping appeare

Mention supercomputers and you often evoke hazy images of building-size machines, Star Wars test-

Since the Ronald Reagan years, conservatives have argued that they have won the economic debate agai

The recent announcement that American fourth-graders scored well in international science and mathem

The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 marked the first major revision of New Deal social policy. It put into

A few weeks ago, in its 20th annual world development report, the World Bank let the world know it d