Commentary

Tomorrow the U.S. International Trade Commission gives the Clinton administration its assessment of

The German government beat a hasty retreat from its plan to fudge the nation's finances by revaluing

The Commerce Department announced last week that the combined budgets of federal, state and local go

If the trial lawyers can contain their greed, if the anti-tobacco extremists can be held in check an

The Trans-Atlantic Conference Agreement is trying again. TACA, the 16-member group that controls shi

Several days ago, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Archer sent a letter to President Cli

President Clinton and European leaders have celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Marshall Plan and

Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien gambled, as did his French counterpart, in calling a general e

Alan Hale, co-discoverer of the Hale-Bopp comet, has been telling interviewers that students should

In the more than 60 years that has elapsed since Congress passed the Glass-Steagall Act, a mounting

June 1 marked the start of the 1997 hurricane season, and meteorologists are predicting a very activ

Not until eight days before Harvard's commencement exercises did Secretary of State George C. Marsha

After he arrived in conquered Berlin to attend the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, President Harry

America's standards of housekeeping have taken a steep plunge now that keeping house no longer feels

When it comes to global foreign direct investment flows, the developed nations set the pace. Indeed,

In a stunning rebuke to France's ruling center-right coalition and of President Jacques Chirac, spec

On the edge of a palm-shaded park in Pat Heung in Hong Kong's New Territories, a bulldozer claws at

For most Americans, Africa is a forbidding place of disease and slaughter. Aside from the horrors of

Western allies, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Marshall Plan, last week endorsed President

The Clinton administration has cut a budget deal with congressional Republicans that substantially e

Say you're on vacation and need emergency medical care. Should the doctor you visit be able to pull

When Congress tried to curb frivolous lawsuits last year, President Clinton delivered a verdict of

After the most violent electoral campaign in decades, Indonesia's President Suharto has won yet anot

Not long ago, former Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis insisted Conrail couldn't be privatized - t

When he arrived in Mexico a few weeks ago, President Clinton got his first state visit to Latin Amer

Weary of the federal government's habit of enacting popular environmental and other reforms but impo

How well do your key people serve as corporate ambassadors? Good manners and following protocol make

The Commerce Department is about to issue a preliminary ruling on perhaps the most provocative steel

Laurent Kabila, the man who was once praised by a fellow Marxist guerrilla for understanding that th

President Boris Yeltsin of Russia accomplished a great deal this week. He signed the Founding Act on

Over the last several years, Vietnam has undertaken an intensive campaign to become ''the next China

A senior Florida legislator recently declared that our university's library system no longer needed

When the United States imposed its grain embargo on the Soviet Union in 1980, farmers in Canada, Fra

At a lunch recently with Li Daoyu, China's ambassador to the United States, I made the argument that

Downsizings, mergers, takeovers, poison pills. With the business news full of public-company turmoil

Despite continued layoffs, re-engineering and restructuring, corporate America is making significant

Next week, President Clinton will formally notify Congress he intends to renew for another year Chin

The United States is making a major move into Africa, calling for an annual meeting with ''reformist

The chastened leaders of President Jacques Chirac's battered parliamentary majority are pulling out

The United States should begin a systematic search for alternatives to unilateral trade sanctions as