Commentary

The recent spirited speculation over whether Japan's 36-year-old Crown Princess Masako is pregnant w

In ''Harrison Bergeron,'' a short story set in 2081, author Kurt Vonnegut spins out the logical extr

pinning scenarios can be a useful exercise, helping the spinners visualize all the possible facets o

he global economy faces a policy vacuum at the beginning of the new millennium as the United States

''Antitrust enforcement should . . . be seen not as 'regulation' but as an alternative to regulation

It's that time of year again. That time when the crystal ball is rolled out and the gurus are expect

It may not be such good news for Western consumers and businesses, but this year's recovery in the p

t's good that the Generalized System of Preferences, a duty-free program that benefits developing co

wo related issues are raising public ire in New Jersey these days. Unfortunately, few want to see th

As I hurried to catch my morning flight out of Dhaka, Bangladesh, I passed hundreds of children slee

At first glance, the environmental activists who protested the World Trade Organization's ministeria

Every year since 1955 the non-partisan Foreign Policy Association has polled Americans in every stat

As the railroad industry steams toward end of year, most companies have concentrated almost exclusiv

Nobody at Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. or Canadian National Railway Inc. expected the firestor

hey're not going to get high marks for preparedness, but the Chinese deserve credit for the caution

learly taking aim at Russia's rampage in Chechnya, the United States has shot itself in the trading

The turmoil surrounding the recent World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle highlights the perils

n balance, the parliamentary elections in Russia this week produced a positive result that offers in

Many have expressed concern about the impact on Hong Kong's legal system of the interpretation of th

While I'm convinced that the new century and the new millennium do not begin until Jan. 1, 2001, the

As temperatures dip below freezing and you're tempted to complain, consider the job that Liliana Lab

I eagerly opened the box, my heart beating faster as I cut through the miles of packaging tape in an

There's opportunity in adversity. So the explanation now shaping up for NASA's twin Mars debacles is

With a big tummy that jiggles like the Christmas-tale ''bowl full of jelly,'' former German Chancell

Can Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse save Hong Kong?A majority of people here seem to think so, ac

Americans love the outdoors.They love it so much that GOP pollsters Frank Luntz and Bob Cast

When a senior executive visiting Moscow saw a long line outside McDonald's, he was horrified - until

he job was to pick the Car of the Century. The jury consisted of 133 automotive journalists from aro

While a growing number of Americans will escape the rough-and-tumble mall scene through online shopp

astern Europe's truck drivers are giving their Western counterparts a run for their money.In

The Seattle summit failed because the World Trade Organization and the U.S. trade representative did

The rush to build new ships is definitely on again.Like some department store's pre-holiday

The call came to speak at a client's conference about a major corporate change program. I prepared f

The draft law proposed to replace the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act of 1936 is said to be a ''careful

A growing fiscal deficit and a ballooning public-sector debt overshadow China's economic prospects f

enezuelans swept away the old order in their country last week, overwhelmingly endorsing a new const

6,400-TEU container vessel is a lot of different things to shipping people: an asset that must be ma

Followers of the Jones Act, that much-maligned and passionately defended law that reserves America's

In the wake of the breakdown of the World Trade Organization summit in Seattle, there has been a see

When most people think of the Coast Guard, they think of a maritime force that operates near the sho