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The United Nations is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights at this ye

President Clinton departed Sunday on a 12-day Africa trip that will be the longest of his presidency

The news that American 12th-graders performed terribly in the recent Third International Mathematics

As the first spring flowers began blooming last week in the Alpine valleys, shouts of outrage from p

Like the armies of God, work at New York's City Hall is never done.In the three months since

As businesses increasingly rely on the collection and use of personal information to develop markets

The young Albanian man shall remain nameless to save him further embarrassment. While jogging in cen

The $12 billion January U.S. trade deficit released late last week shows an expected decline in U.S.

When the details of a so-called reform program are more than 700 pages long, taxpayers are right to

EU Trade Commissioner Sir Leon Brittan has made no secret of his desire to counter the protectionism

Free traders in Washington have been in disarray ever since labor unions blocked a bid by the White

Three lessons were there for the learning last week for those who scrutinized a report by the Women'

The information technology industry is pushing Congress to expand a program that allows companies to

One of the overarching arguments for devolution of government from the federal to the state level is

Rising prices make people understandably angry - just harken back to the 1970s oil crises. And when

If you need evidence that global forces are radically transforming the world, its finance and trade,

MARIANAS GOVERNORPURSUES ALLEGATIONSAs governor of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana

By now, we have all heard the statistic that more young Americans believe in UFOs than believe they

The early warning signs are everywhere.The Colorado Springs school district signs a 10-year,

Presidents get involved in foreign policy for a variety of reasons, some good, others less so.

Barring a cataclysmic financial crisis, Europe will launch its single currency, the euro, next Janua

Korea announced this week plans to open its property market to foreigners. In a nation famous for it

Who would have said it even as recently as a year ago?As the Maastricht exam approaches and

You've suddenly and surprisingly hit the jackpot: You picked the winning lottery numbers, the Publis

Blacksmith Michael Darrig cheerfully admits he's an anachronism on the federal payroll.''The

The Year 2000 doomsayers had already sung their opening dirge as the first significant, negative imp

Thanks in part to the East Asian financial crisis, the U.S. Congress finally has a real opportunity

The outcome of the Iraqi crisis strengthens Saddam Hussein's domestic and international position, un

Reports that the Japanese government has broken with tradition and named an outsider to head the Ban

MEXICAN TOMATO ISSUEA MATTER OF DISPUTEIn response to Aaron Lukas' guest opinion on March 2,

The economic crisis in Asia might look like a storm passing over the entire region, but Hong Kong's

Snaking down the west coast of South America, Chile has a bloodstained past and a booming economy, g

President Clinton raised a few eyebrows recently when he announced support for the Internet Tax Free

The ''banana wars'' raging in Central America and the Caribbean are now drawing global attention. We

The World Trade Organization decision against the European Union's banana regime, which found Brusse

Santiago, Chile, the site of next month's launch of the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas,is famo

After ignoring for years the threat of the millennium computer problem - under which some computers

Never stand between a dog and a tree. That's a piece of advice Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister

In an apparent change of schedule, the White House seems ready to move up the U.S.-China summit in B

The leaders of 26 countries met in London last week, with a feast at Buckingham Palace thrown in, to