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

Value is in the eye of the beholder. So, too, are risk and confidence, those ideas on which the mark

In assessing the Russian economy between now and 2000, it's important to focus on three issues - the

Remember when ''Japan'' on the bottom of a knickknack was a source of derision? And when the land of

The Panama Canal will run just as smoothly in the hands of the Panamanian government as it has as a

TAIWAN'S WTO ENTRYNOT IN US INTERESTI read with interest Greg Mastel's article, ''Let Taiwan

The draft of a major business-backed bill to halt, or at least slow, the spread of unilateral U.S. e

Researchers have recently documented the unwanted spread of a European insect that was introduced in

Ukraine is bigger than France, with a population of 51 million, but six years after the Soviet Union

As many as one-third of American companies allow their workers to dress casually every day, and the

Waterfronts in most countries are mucky and that's even before you consider the quality of the wa-

When the government began its investigation of the Union Pacific Railroad following a series of fata

NO NEED TO WORRY ABOUTHONG KONG'S TAX REVIEWYour Aug. 11 article on the review of the profit

If chief executive officers of the nation's largest corporations ran the country, consumers might no

The European Union's top farm official, Franz Fischler, has a problem with world trade rules and log

Torn between its apartheid past and a multiracial future, South Africa's still predominantly white N

Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo's ''cohabitation'' with the opposition that controls the Congress

President Clinton faces the prospect of becoming the first U.S. president since Herbert Hoover who l

''Is Social Security going to be there when I retire?'' the woman asked.A television produce

Governments have traditionally discharged their role as the protector of public welfare using reams

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

C&II COULD BEBOX SHIPPING ADVOCATEThis is in response to Don Becker's Notebook column publis

Although the United Parcel Service strike is over, the impact on other companies is just starting.

The recent announcement that American fourth-graders scored well in international science and mathem

A few weeks ago, in its 20th annual world development report, the World Bank let the world know it d

The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 marked the first major revision of New Deal social policy. It put into

This ancient Baltic city basking in one of the hottest, longest summers on record has temporarily ta

The untimely death of Diana, Princess of Wales, has demonstrated that a world benumbed to the traged

Following minor corrections in Julius Caesar's calendar by his nephew, Augustus, timekeeping appeare

Mention supercomputers and you often evoke hazy images of building-size machines, Star Wars test-

Since the Ronald Reagan years, conservatives have argued that they have won the economic debate agai

Tourism is one of the biggest industries in Massachusetts, the United States and the world. Cruising

The economic debacles of the last half century were, sadly, not accidents of history. They resulted

The European Union is about to renegotiate its trade agreement with 71 developing countries giving t

For better or worse, President Clinton has compiled a remarkable record in balancing the government'

This seems a wretched year for a global deal to open banking and other financial services markets. C

Much of the press coverage of recent assaults on weakened East Asia currencies quoted local governme

As we come off the Labor Day holiday, Americans have cause to celebrate the continuing vibrant econo

A significant service, maybe the most significant, performed by successful Teamsters union workers i

By most counts, Russia has scored a large number of economic successes this summer. Is it by luck or