Commentary

Against all expectations, Italy's left-wing Olive Tree coalition has done more to rein in profligate

Iraq has once again rebuffed United Nations weapons inspectors attempting to ensure compliance with

Cuba's willingness to let Pope John Paul II hold religious services this week in Havana is a major v

Contaminated berries in Central America, ''mad cow disease'' in Britain, cholera in Latin America, a

They may not run mainframe computers with millions of lines of Cobol code that must be repaired at $

Fund managers and other investors have been dumping stock market shares all over the world during th

OECD SHIPBUILDING DEALWILL ONLY HURT US YARDSThe recent suggestion by Lars Kjaer (''Ending s

The National Football League has sold the TV broadcast rights to its games for the nonsensical sum o

The great debate now raging in Washington over what to do with future federal budget surpluses has a

Companies operate freely across borders and so, at times, do price fixers. The Supreme Court last we

Other than kangaroos, koala bears and Crocodile Dundee movies, most Americans don't know much about

Sen. Dale Bumpers, D-Ark., will be leaving the U.S. Senate at the end of the year, and no one will b

Shortly after the Berlin Wall fell, a machinist at one of East Germany's state-owned Robotron factor

The designation of Guillermo Ortiz as the new governor of the Bank of Mexico has generated a storm o

Concerns about a shaky Russian economy could derail a U.S.-Russian science experiment that seeks to

Every day, thousands of regulations cost people and companies money, muck up the economy and even th

The myth and mystique surrounding Blackbeard - perhaps the most notorious pirate of all - has done m

For the moment, the luster is off Asia's once-blooming economies as currency and equity market uphea

As Congress reconvenes, it will be considering seven separate amendments to the Constitution. This m

Mercantilists are often quick to point out that ex- porting is a virtuous economic activity, produc

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was bubbling the other day about the accomplishments of U.S. f

America's East Coast faced another classic environmental crisis last fall. Fish were dying from toxi

The United States and 150 other countries agreed last month in Japan to reduce global greenhouse gas

Earlier this century, the social stigma attached to psychiatry was so great that patients tried to g

With unemployment low across America, employers with the greatest staffing needs are creating unique

A dozen or more studies over the past 40 years have indicted the State Department as an abyss of sci

On Dec. 28, The Los Angeles Times ran a lead editorial cheering the ban on smoking in all California

For one of the pioneers of Semtex, the notorious and deadly plastic explosive, it seemed an appropri

''Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics,'' the political scientist Walla

There is more evidence that the 1996 telecom deregulation law isn't working. Cable TV companies, whi

Despite worrisome reports about the Japanese banking and financial institutions, the sun is not sett

Massacres of unspeakable brutality have left an estimated 80,000 Algerians dead during six years of

If you opened the mailbox or turned on the tube this holiday season, you learned to expect your loca

There's too much politics in education,'' observed a veteran researcher in the field recently, and h

Most companies will pay skilled computer program mers to fix their millennium bug problems - wherei

In the past, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was a geographical, material and political cente

In sacking Government Secretary Emilio Chuayffet Chemor on Jan. 3, Mexico's President Ernesto Zedill

Oh, Disney. You've done it again.First, it was the ''adult content'' warning that someone fo

With a keen eye for symbolism, British Prime Minister Tony Blair launched his government's six-month

President Clinton is reportedly considering raising the minimum wage again. He should reconsider. To