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The following article is excerpted from a May 2 interview Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce De

Seven in 10 American business executives believe the nation's public educational system is incapable

The recent agreement between President Clinton and Republican leaders to balance the federal budget

The Federal Trade Commission, taking economic reality into consideration, has proposed to reduce the

In the 1920s, the mood of the American public withdrew from the Wilsonian concept of an internationa

President Clinton is optimistic about Latin America as he heads south this week. After the end of th

''Landslide'' doesn't begin to describe the scale of Tony Blair's Labour Party victory in the Britis

Last February, Dallas-based Triton Energy Corp. agreed to pay $300,000 to settle federal charges all

While Zaire's president, Mobutu Sese Seko, is going through the motions of negotiating his way out

The Port of Oakland and a handful of others are finding shortcuts in the convoluted procedures requi

Tired of budget battles and campaign finance scandals? You might want to take a few minutes to revie

She was in my face big time.''You never write anything good about carriers. All you do is wr

Has former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo gone off the deep end?The American College of Trial Law

The style columns of business journals catering to plutocrats have been fussing about a worrisome ph

Charter schools may be the most vibrant force in American education today.This is the conclu

The environmental lobby won't be on board when President Clinton tries to expand the North American

The meaning of a word can be easily altered in the lexicon of U.S. public policy, including the word

REP. LEVIN'S NEW THEORYOF EXPORT PROTECTIONISMRep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., cites a recent stu

The British electorate has done it again. Beating in the May 1 general election even the most extrem

President Clinton and 13 U.S. Cabinet members are scheduled to arrive in Mexico City this afternoon

With the eyes of the world focused on the crisis in nearby Zaire, rumblings of a similar nature have

EXAGGERATING FEDEX'SLOBBYING PROWESSI am writing to correct errors in an article in your Apr

The just-concluded International Monetary Fund-World Bank spring meeting peaked before it began.

The fate of America's economy in the 21st century depends in large part on what we do about our publ

''Mr. Y'' may be one of Japan's ''sokaiya'' (gangsters), but he talks like a corporate activist.

By definition, volunteerism is an act of kindness performed out of compassion, done willingly and wi

Former President Reagan would be a popular figure in Russia today. His tax-cut philosophy has become

All Americans are health-care patients whose lives and well-being will undoubtedly be affected, for

The partial settlement reached this week by Washington and Brussels over meat inspection standards h

A key assumption of international trade is that countries manufacture products based on their resour

For centuries, May Day has been a day to celebrate nature and fertility in humans and animals. The f

For many years the United States poured billions of dollars into Central America in financial and mi

DON'T DISPARAGE THESTATE MARITIME ACADEMIESI would like to comment on your April 8 articles

Whither the president? Will he bow out, as the constitution requires, or wangle a second term? This

The city of New York is embroiled in an epic struggle over economic regulation. The battle has broad

It's hip to help.This week's ''Presidents' Summit for America's Future'' was a showcase for

Technological advances over the last 50 years have changed the way insurance companies work.

The decade of the 1990s will come to be known as the time when the one remaining superpower on the p

BLUEDON'T FIT THE STEREOTYPEJames E. Challenger's column on blue-collar employment (''Changi

Imagine trying to get government approval to dredge a soybean export canal through a spectacular wet