Commentary

FMC'S CREELDESERVES PRAISEI refer to your front page Oct. 20 article (''Creel pushes himself

During a week of topsy-turvy market gyrations sparked by mismanaged Southeast Asian economies, a som

As China's president, Jiang Zemin, prepares to return home, the question remains: Does China want Wo

It was more than a century after the founding of the United States before George Washington was comm

For most Americans, the financial futures and options exchanges are one of this country's recognized

The Feds are after Microsoft again, and this time, they may well have a case. There is evidence Micr

Since July, Hong Kong has been the scene of momentous change. For the first time in history, a commu

Rabbi David Ariel Yoel arrived at his synagogue early one morning during this month's religious holi

The news media has been abuzz with the Coast Guard's recent ''blockading'' of Japanese ships from U.

Appeasement. Cowardice. Kow-towing.Bill Clinton has been accused of all these, and more, as

Nations grow increasingly skittish about foreign influence. U.S. voters balk at hemispheric integrat

Fretting about your lack of height gets you nowhere. Or as the Bible, backed up by modern medical sc

The safety record of nuclear power plants in the United States is impressive. A steady reduction in

The budget deficit for the fiscal 1997 dropped to $22.6 billion, the lowest shortfall since 1974. On

The soldiers' legs literally had holes in them, great brown craters where the radiation had gnawed a

In the relentless race for new markets, few corporations can match the quirky imagination of South K

Given its relatively short tenure on the world stage, Kia Motors has made a lot of skid marks. South

The U.S. embargo against Cuba, extended to third-country Cuban investors through the 1996 Helms-Burt

Like everything else in our hilariously subjective universe, when historians assemble to rank our 41

Europe's second-largest country can't join Europe.Turkey will suffer yet another snub in its

The U.S. government has decided that the EMU will fly. That's a significant change of attitude that

Free trade is on top of every business community's priority agenda. On paper, that is. In reality, b

Last February in Geneva, 69 countries representing 90 percent of the $600 billion global telecommuni

Of all the upheavals sweeping post-apartheid South Africa, few are more profound but less publicized

Opinion polls often show Congress among the least respected arms of government. Now the august body

Perhaps the notion that I have pushed hardest at people in recent years has been that television is

Free trade in the Americas is good for the United States, but both political parties are so paralyze

When the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court threw out this summer the wrongful-discharge case of J

The current economic expansion soon will be the longest in the nation's history. Indeed, except for

John P. Fullam, the federal judge who reorganized Penn Central, never liked Amtrak. ''It sounds too

Just over a decade ago, several governors appeared on the Phil Donahue show to beg General Motors Co

In December of 1991, when European leaders met in the Dutch town of Maastricht to agree on the crite

There is a standard, almost reflexive, response to someone with whom one disagrees: He is an ideolog

The news Wednesday that Swiss-Swedish engineering company ABB Asea Brown Boveri will eliminate 10,00

The 1990s have not been kind to Japan. Beset by financial calamities and a few self-inflicted wounds

Trickle down, railroad style. The proposed carve-up of Conrail by CSX Corp. and Northern Southern is

The restructuring of Conrail and the division of its operation between Norfolk Southern Corp. and CS

As the sherpas scurry furiously, the stage is being set for next week's Washington summit between P

US THREATS AGAINST KOREAARE UNFOUNDED, MISGUIDEDI am writing in response to your editorial '

Independent analysts have taken a look at U.S. anti-dumping laws recently and found them unfair, bia