Commentary

Gro Harlem Brundtland, the popular Norwegian prime minister who led the country to prosperity and he

Conrail has come a long way in 20 years. A bankrupt ward of the government in 1976, Conrail today is

There is elegance in simplicity, my mother always says. Simplicity can also be expensive, and not ju

Bulgarians head to the polls Sunday to pick a new president. The key opposition candidate, Peter Sto

With national elections approaching, politicians are offering competing proposals, while the pundits

If you sense that certain tired feeling in the rhetoric of this presidential campaign, you've got a

The proposed merger of CSX Transportation and Consolidated Rail will no doubt achieve certain benefi

Bob Dole the candidate complains about America's moral decay. But Bob Dole the economist says he wan

PILOTS ARE NEEDEDON THE GREAT LAKESI am a marine pilot on the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Seawa

General Motors of Canada settled a strike with its workers on Tuesday, but the pact leaves an import

In 1815, Commodore Stephen Decatur sailed with 10 ships into the Port of Algiers and put an end to A

It's official. The U.S. Department of Labor reports that the garment industry's voluntary code of co

The airline industry's terrorist profile does not have penetrating eyes, olive skin and a bushy mous

''I don't care if you've got a billion dollars,'' Bill Clinton told a Michigan audience recently. ''

Name the high point of this year's Congress, trade-wise speaking. You have until New Year's to submi

Interest rates on long-term U.S. Treasury bonds, which have hovered near 7 percent in recent months,

In his heart, President Clinton may be a political liberal, as his critics charge. However, the reco

About 120 miles east of Manhattan, a three-hour bus ride away, is Montauk, my favorite part of New Y

The countries of the Pacific Rim have declared their ambition to promote liberalization of telecommu

The government of Mexico, which has made a lot of progress recently climbing out of its economic mor

The Customs Service has revamped its vocabulary, changed its attitude and drawn up an action plan, a

Now I like a Banana Republic as well as the next yuppie, and I own my share of scented soaps. But wh

NUCLEAR POWER PLANTSIN THE US ARE SAFECertainly, we all would like to see improvement in the

The U.S. media have duly reported that Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and Jose Ramos-Horta won th

The after-dinner discussion was meant to last no more than 30 minutes. Two hours later, the chat was

A classic story of political ignorance is the one involving a Mississippi governor who was under fir

If you have any lingering doubts that the tax code works against innovative ideas, take a look at th

US CAN'T RELY ONFOREIGN-FLAG CARRIERSOn Sept. 24, the day the Senate vote was scheduled on t

A funny thing happened around the country last week: Americans observed Columbus Day.In New

The sacking of Alexander Lebed, Russia's troublemaking security chief, removed a painful thorn from

Voters in Japan's parliamentary election Sunday gave a near majority to the conservatives, virtually

Things are about to get serious at the World Trade Organization, which last week appointed a panel t

Bill Clinton's place in the annals of political chutzpah is so secure that additional testimonials a

The prospect of Democratic gains in the Senate this fall has Republicans worried, but some in the GO

Russia's Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin couldn't quite get his lips around Napoleon Bonaparte's

A profound change has taken place in the relationship of Latin America to the world economy. It is n

Jack Kemp formed his image as a progressive-conservative Republican largely on the strength of his p

State Department officials have pledged to seek a legally binding international agreement on global

There's a basic contradiction at the heart of last week's noisy demonstration by some 50,000 French

Last July, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu advised a group of journalists in Washington ho