Commentary

''It wasn't in the speech when I left on Tuesday night,'' said Mark Helprin, who wrote most of Bob D

NEW USES FORTHE MARSHALL PLANIn his Sept. 20th opinion article, ''Mothballing Cold War Think

The U.S. Council for International Business (USCIB) believes that modernization of customs practices

Don't believe everything you read about the demise of the written word. Despite the proliferation of

The first human to light a fire was surely glad to have it. But equally welcome was the implied less

Some call them ''sweeteners.'' Others prefer ''inducements.'' In a few countries they're even known

In this presidential election year, it has become fashionable to advocate faster economic growth as

For months now, much of Wall Street has been waiting in vain for the Federal Open Market Committee t

The state of the economy always becomes an election year issue, but misleading government statistics

The International Monetary Fund would, no doubt, approve of Moscow's determination to hold down bu

Shortly after Halloween, the United States will hold a World Series and a presidential election, but

LET'S HEAR ITFOR GIMBALLED BUNKSHurray for Tom Baldwin's ideas on ''Making ships user friend

After a year of chest beating about saving America from the ''failed'' welfare system, the politicia

Kids pick up their first cigarette for a variety of reasons. Some do it for kicks, some to see how i

The United States is the world's largest trader and most of its trade is carried by ship. Yet much o

The U.S. Congress is about to deliver a stinging blow to the World Bank, the world's biggest aid age

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan bowed to exceptional pressure from the Clinton administratio

The gilded world of big-league philanthropy is witnessing an extraordinary event: the voluntary exti

Before a blinding sun bakes Beysehir lake, Ismail Senol poles his thin, bright-blue fishing boat thr

They didn't call it the Massachusetts Miracle for nothing.During the early 1980s, the oldest

'WHITE HOUSE SMEARHAS OUTRUN THE TRUTH'Thank you for the kind and generous profile in your S

The Senate will adjourn this week without ratifying one of the most important U.S. trade deals of t

In a shameful example of legislative hostage-taking, labor unions are holding up a $19 billion feder

With the 50th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials upon us, and the conflicts in the former Yugoslavi

For all the talk about information technology, how has it affected corporate bottom lines?Th

In little more than 18 months, Latin American nations have proved that good economic news can spread

Like astronaut Shannon Lucid, the nation's important health-care issues have been stuck in outer spa

With the decline of communism, a long list of former nonmarket economies, including Russia, other fo

Guess what?It really was the economy in 1992, when James Carville hung his now-famous sign i

Britain's role within Europe is approaching a critical juncture as the momentum for European monetar

Forty-seven years ago Mao Tse-tung proclaimed the new People's Republic of China, announcing the cou

High on the agenda of the upcoming annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary

Grammatical stickler Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan has complained for years about the phrase ''most f

Speaking in Cincinnati recently, President Clinton noted that six out of 10 heroin and cocaine users

With much fanfare, Bill Clinton signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty at the United Nations last

It is understandable that President Boris Yeltsin's doctors have come to praise him, not to bury him

What should a U.S. software company do when it finds out that the Chinese government is among the mo

President Clinton and House Speaker Newt Gingrich may soon find themselves saying with the Duke of W

Facing a challenge to national unity at home, Canada is gearing up to fight an imagined threat from

Anew order of international finance is upon us. No longer are billions of dollars flowing from the t