Commentary

ven as small knots of protestors made a nuisance of themselves outside the United Nations trade conf

Last November, Federal Highway Administrator Kenneth Wykle outlined the transportation challenge ahe

What are the fundamental forces guiding business? Can capitalism co-exist with humanism? What is lea

While the French seem keen to benefit from Britain's mistakes in handling its mad-cow disease crisis

Railroad stock prices and market capitalization are in a depression not seen since the days before d

The arrival of the new millennium has brought a focus at the United Nations Security Council back on

he United Nations Conference on Trade and Development had billed its quadrennial summit meeting this

ranted, the word came from just a couple of shippers instead of a detailed national poll. And yes, i

If music is your life - if you can't live without tunes ricocheting off your eardrums - then you hav

Steady shifts in the sources of money for research and development raise a host of troubling questio

The bushwhackers who hit the Internet's top commercial sites served notice that, despite widespread

The latest economic news is in, and it's heartening. American worker productivity shot up at a spect

he United States and the European Union are heading in opposite directions on an important issue in

he ABC game show ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire'' excels at building tension in its viewers - and,

Bulk mailers are in full outcry over a European Court of Justice ruling that seems to stamp out a lu

In at least one area, the U.S. economic expansion has left a trail of destruction in its wake: On it

The Clinton administration must be positively blushing over the back-to-back huzzahs from some of it

A couple of occurrences this week have turned my thoughts back to the basics.As we all keep

Whose mother hasn't said it? You know, ''Wear clean underwear. You never know when you might be in a

he hearing promised by Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., into a key component of ocean shipping reform is sti

Kirk Bailey, a computer specialist whose job includes protecting medical records, issued a challenge

After a seemingly endless, 13-year struggle, China appears poised to join the World Trade Organizati

The names Jackie Robinson, Sidney Poitier and Thurgood Marshall jump to mind as examples of black Am

ruck driver unrest at seaports is reaching a boiling point, and if the problem isn't addressed soon,

New year, old problems.Navy Seals boarded a Russian tanker smuggling Iraqi oil out of the Pe

o much for the Mideast peace process. Since talks between Israel and Syria stalled last month, fight

The shabby-looking peasant approached the businessman in the lobby of a south China hotel, clutching

Recent changes in Turkey's approach to its closed border with Armenia may result in Russia losing it

Last year marked the most difficult one for Mercosur, the Southern Common Market, since the economic

ust when it seemed Japan would finally crest the hill and get its economy growing again, it has roll

he man may have been forgotten over the passing years, but his name and, more importantly, his signi

There are many things that I love about the Internet, but there's one particular thing I love so muc

Margaret Thatcher may no longer be in power, but her spirit has taken over in many a country.

The latest interest-rate increases by the Federal Reserve followed the announcement of several close

The Internet was supposed to usher in an era of frictionless commerce, one in which technology linke

Save me! Save me!You can almost hear the cries of ''Save me! Save me!'' from competing railr

The strong-franc policy, which involved linking the French currency to the German mark over recent p

Just over 50 years ago, the people of Africa began a journey to cast off the shackles of colonial ru

ife is complicated in the Connecticut-sized British province of Northern Ireland. It has been for mo

Drum roll, please: It's finally here. The long-delayed Windows 2000 hits store shelves Feb. 17.<