Commentary

FEINSTEIN'S CUSTOMSCHOICE DISPUTEDThe Pacific Coast Council's endorsement of California Demo

''Our best price is guaranteed. We will not be undersold! For a limited time, get 20 percent off the

Japan's collapse in the early 1990s came as a major surprise. A country that had lectured the United

Let's assume for the moment that Madeleine Albright somehow gets the Israelis and Palestinians talki

Republicans are now debating what to do with the budget surplus that they and others see in the fisc

Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto has positioned himself as a champion of political and econ

Absurd jury verdicts in product liability cases once were rare enough to be considered an aberration

The federal government is happily enjoying the political pleasure of cutting taxes. But on the horiz

The collapse of Baring Brothers bank involved a British rogue trader in Japanese securities in Singa

Last month, Moscow impressed Russia's trading partners by extending a generous trade liberalization

High employment should not lead us to ignore the growing threat of structural unemployment.C

In school, September meant writing themes on ''How I Spent My Summer Vacation.'' The congressional e

Most treasuries around the world sell their securities using auctions in which each winning bidder p

OCEAN SHIPPING REFORMBRINGS BENEFITS TO ALLMartin Lewin makes a ''lawyerly'' case for why th

At the NATO summit meeting in Spain this summer, the momentous decision was made to expand the allia

Everyone agrees that ''soft money'' is sleazy and corrupt, that businesses, unions and fat cat contr

This week, President Clinton presents legislation asking Congress for ''fast-track'' authority. Unde

The United States is no longer generous when it comes to sub-Saharan Africa. It is not offering bill

Despite predictions of instant competition in local telephone markets, the over-hyped Telecommunicat

Recent financial turmoil in Southeast Asia and stock and currency market jitters in Brazil and South

US SUPERCOMPUTERSUNDER ATTACKThere is no need to ''reinstate'' Japan's access to the U.S. ve

CSX and Norfolk Southern, the two giant railroad companies that propose to split up Conrail, love co

Many Wall Street analysts and commentators have their noses pressed hard to their grindstones lookin

The administration's two-year push to gain ''fast track'' authority has been neither fast nor on tra

Anyone who has traded Mexican pesos or invested in Mexican stocks and bonds knows how it feels to sw

Tell me the sort of state legislature you would like to have, and I can tell you how to get it.<

The night was hot and muggy. The air conditioning in the ballroom of the Mayflower Hotel had lost it

Frank N. Wilner, no stranger to these pages, has completed a prodigious effort in his ''Railroad Mer

Former Prime Minister of Bangladesh Begum Khaleda Zia is pleading with Washington for higher quotas

Downsizing. Re-engineering. Total quality management. These techniques are all the rage in America's

LEARNING WITHOUT BASICSIS A TOOLBOX WITHOUT TOOLSYou carried an article by Bruce Alberts Sep

Like a big kid in a candy shop, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl thundered into a convention hall stuff

What do hamburgers have to do with air raid shelters? A report recently commissioned by the mayor

Congress once again has come tantalizingly close to overhauling federal regulation of the maritime i

In Russian villages, people say the law is like a sleigh in winter - a clever judge can steer it eit

A former international law professor of mine was fond of saying there is little rhyme or reason to t

Asia is both the fastest growing economic region and the fastest growing telecommunications market i

Beware the law of unintended consequences.The recent budget deal slashed the capital gains t

Greece and Turkey, out of harmony for much of this century, have at last struck a chord that is musi

Southeast Asia's most interesting and controversial leader, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohama