Commentary

Ian Gottschalk received a letter from American Express Co. last week.Inside, he found a real

Few parents realize what they are doing to their children by sending them to some of our most presti

The ''vision thing'' has never been a problem for Jacques Delors.The grand designs George Bu

When the mayors of Los Angeles and San Francisco hold coordinated press conferences to denounce an i

''Never confuse brilliance with a bull market,'' the saying goes, and yet something like that is hap

It's the season of big promises and big dreams here again in New York City.Gov. George Patak

Saturday's ValuJet crash in South Florida has now spawned three investigations: one into the direct

President Fidel Ramos of the Philippines has proposed extending the regional trade arrangement of th

American women may just be catching up to men in the earnings category, but when it comes to control

As everyone who drives a car or heats a house knows, the cost of energy has increased this year. Gra

An aging population can pose real problems for a country - for example, more retirees drawing Social

On the wall in my office hangs a photograph of the Berlin Wall. Scrawled across its cement face in b

NOT TOO FASTWITH FAST FACTSYour April 18 Fast Facts column contained an item entitled, ''Por

This Friday, Secretary of State Warren Christopher will make a long-awaited, overdue speech on polic

When India's voters booted the ruling Congress Party from power last week, they ushered in a period

''Europe Day? Never heard of it,'' was the response from nearly all those questioned by a British TV

Comic books are cool.They are less formidable than a full blown tome, more involved than a f

Forty-three million jobs have been eliminated in the United States since 1979. Many of these downsiz

U.S. and Japanese negotiators recently signed an air cargo agreement that affects far more than tran

Russia's June 16 presidential election is causing jitters in Western political and business circles.

Railroads have had a big year: Big profits, big mergers and now, perhaps, big strikes. President Cli

Japan's trade officials have blasted the United States for blocking an international telecom deal in

While President Clinton was admonishing the world to adhere strictly to the Bosnian arms embargo, he

Why is Nynex spending millions on name-identification ads when it is about to become Bell Atlantic?

For Jacques Delors, former president of the European Union Commission, a single EU currency is but a

When Manne Dipico, the new premier of South Africa's Northern Cape province, greeted his newly assig

You're watching ''Seinfeld'' when an ad comes on for a certain diet cola. You watch the ad. When it'

Cuddly grandfather. Friendly guy behind the counter. John Sweeney resembles a lot of things, but not

DON'T CALL MEBIG BROTHERWe take exception to your April 11 article ''LA-LB tracking device d

A historic bargaining process is currently unfolding among private businesses from both sides of the

Grain stocks are at record lows. Prices of cereals, especially coarse grain, are at record highs. Th

President Clinton had petroleum reserves to tap last week to bring gasoline prices down. Too bad for

Boris Yeltsin is trying something new in Azerbaijan to help Russia gain a share of Caspian oil riche

Last week's decision in Geneva to extend the telecommunications trade talks may produce a global dea

There's some discouraging news ahead for the Clinton administration, the AFL-CIO and other organized

The argument from business commonly goes like this: ''If it weren't for those (expletive deleted) en

Rep. Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat on the House Asian Affairs subcommittee, made a friendly pitch

It has been many years coming, but Japanese consumers, it seems, are starting to like foreign cars.

In the early days of the cellular telephone business, competing companies waged war to acquire subsc

A recent report by New York's Regional Plan Association and a spate of pessimistic news stories proj