Commentary

Britain tried to lead Europe last week but didn't fool anyone.Prime Minister Tony Blair lect

Two years ago in the tiny Sudanese village of Akak, an exhausted woman stumbled, bleeding, into the

Farmers, this is our opportunity to send a message to Uncle Sam, the Farm Bureau, farm organizations

Amid a blizzard of favorable economic reports, many 1999 economic forecasts have been revised from h

n a sign of how difficult life has become in Russia, Reuters reported that a retired soldier took a

irst it was Europe's farmers in revolt against pro- posals to cut their subsidies. Now it's the tur

Alan Greenspan recently told the Senate Banking Committee of the urgent need to remove barriers that

A few weeks ago, it was Mission Not Impossible but Most Unlikely. Now, it's Mission Well, Could Be.<

For the gadget freak who has a copy/fax/scanning machine, digital day planner, battery-powered dog b

Even as the media, government leaders and major trade participants around the world trumpet the vict

After a year of obsessing on trying to remove the president from office, now Congress finally might

It's time to get even with the idiots.And these idiots are the worst sort.They're not your m

s horrifying as the savage butchery of foreign tourists was in Uganda last week, the response of t

t's curious to watch the nation's leaders deal with the subject of trade. They dearly love the econo

petty-sounding spat over bananas took a nasty if not unexpected turn this week, pushing Europe and

Don't let the politicians try to steal credit for the country's current prosperity.They've g

Although China will commemorate 50 years of Communist Party rule this year, communism is dead in the

In case you were out at sea and missed hearing about it, the world is coming to an end in nine month

The state of the Saudi Arabian economy is ringing alarm bells in the West and rightly so.As

In response to Ambassador Diego Ramiro Guelar's letter (''Ministry provides Argentine health data,''

The earliest signs of human plant breeding - cereal plants bred to hold onto their seeds instead of

erhaps there's a deep cosmic significance to be attached to an anniversary that passed this week. Pe

The passage of the Ocean Shipping Reform Act (OSRA) has given rise to a cottage industry of seminars

As the United States presses Japan to deregulate its economy, Japan's powerful Ministry of Internati

They call it the killer app. For the first IBM PCs with their clunky DOS interface it was the spread

In responding to demands for steel protection, the Clinton administration is missing a historic oppo

Nigerians will soon have a new president - well, make that an old one - but it is too early to be ta

Referring to the article ''Argentine Tiger?'' (Jan. 20, Page 7A) by Eileen Stillwaggon based on her

wo reports in the news this week should raise eye brows and concern. Both covered so-called sport u

urope's new central bank is out to establish its re putation as an inflation-fighter at precisely t

You were one of the first to have your system scanned for Year-2000 problems. Now you can just sit b

The ideal politician is out there.Unfortunately, he or she is still morphing and has not yet

It is a measure of how desperate the British Conservative Party is that its leader, William Hague, v

China does not belong in the World Trade Organization, regardless of the size of its economy or its

I didn't watch ''Stephen King's Storm of the Century'' mini-series, but some Duluthians in the Linco

In 1992, Bill Clinton promised America, ''I will not raise taxes on the middle class to pay for thes

he Federal Maritime Commission's adoption of a set of regulations last week for the Ocean Shipping R

illary Rodham Clinton isn't the first First Lady to star in pundits' discussions of political races

Levi Strauss is closing half its U.S. plants largely, the analysts say, because its trademark jeans

As Congress goes to work on the budget for next year, it's sleepwalking, as usual, toward another bi