Commentary

Teasury Secretary Lawrence Summers got it right this week when he came to the defense of the dollar,

A congressman and an activist group have reneged on the agreement that ended the dredging crisis at

In response to Edward M. Emmett's opinion article of July 13 (Ocean Shipping Reform Act: a win-win-w

The press release and Federal Register notice were, in the Washington way, complex and wordy. They i

Within six months President Clinton and other world leaders have attended the funerals of two buttre

Shopping has replaced baseball as the national pastime and The Mall has trumped the Statue of Libert

It never fails. As soon as Microsoft announces a new product, book publishers flood the market with

I read with interest Ted Prince's column of July 15 (''The brave new world of port selection,'' Page

When a decommissioned ship arrives at India's Alang shipbreaking yard, local workers chop a coconut

Jordan's municipal elections have marked the first political success for the new king, Abdullah II.<

Russian Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin began his first visit to the United States Sunday in Seattle

America, it's time to face reality. As we head into the new millennium, the nation's agriculture loo

The European Union is sending conflicting signals to the former communist nations seeking to join it

After the two longest economic expansions in peace-time America, liberal revisionists are returning.

A new Coast Guard regulation titled ''Year 2000 (Y2K) Reporting Requirements for Vessels and Marine

Edward M. Emmett (''Ocean Shipping Reform Act: a win-win-win,'' opinion article, July 13, Page 7) ob

It is little more than a month since Thabo Mbeki was sworn in as South Africa's second post-aparthei

Fire at sea has always been one of the most feared of maritime casualties. On the night of July 12,

For years, speculation focused on the question, ''Will they, or won't they?'' Then debate turned to

The recent trend for investment houses such as Merrill Lynch and Scudder Kemper to expand their Inte

In 1992, President Bush decided to terminate the Voluntary Restraint Agreements (VRAs) on steel prod

President Clinton recently proposed to add coverage of prescription drugs to the Medicare program. I

The Clinton administration got a sharp reminder this week that its plan to shrug off financial respo

In response to the opinion article ''Promises, promises from the Customs Service'' (July 12, Page 9)

Game over. The fat lady has sung. Case blown up and dismissed. That's the only conclusion that can b

I can almost imagine one person at a wedding whispering to another, ''So they finally did it.''<

On Dec. 20, after more than four centuries, Portugal will hand over its authority for Macau to the P

T.S. Eliot once wrote ''Between the idea and the reality between the motion and the act falls the sh

''Dysfunctional'' seems to be the descriptive word of choice among the many diagnosticians who have

I have to respond to the recent column by Alan Abrams (''It's the telephone, stupid,'' July 15, Page

If China devalues its currency, will it trigger a new Asian financial crisis? Reports this week that

One thing you gotta love about the government is its ceaseless ability to do one thing with one hand

Barring a last-minute logjam over secondary political details, the World Trade Organization's Genera

I've been carrying a 260-mega-byte hard drive in my shirt pocket.The folks at Calluna Techno

Twenty years ago this month, a 41-year-old woman from the north of England led a small group shreddi

Globalization is already a fact of life in the international missile and military armaments communit

A lack of confidence in trade liberalization has taken root in the environmental community.T

In the months that have passed since our proposal to let foreigners own and control U.S. airlines (M

It's easy for the United States to feel righteous about its latest move in the trans-Atlantic trade

Quotable criminal Willie Sutton had a quick and accurate answer when he was asked why he kept robbin