Commentary

Well, guys, we gals have to hand it to you: When it comes to determining which gender is hipper on t

ecession-wracked Japan is awash in TV shows, books and articles warning that it is on the brink of

By now, virtually every public school student in the country has heard about the supposed environmen

In Homer's epic poem, the Mediterranean wanderer Odysseus moored his ship off the Tunisian island of

British Prime Minister Tony Blair's emergence as an international war leader with other people's mon

Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia, Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic and Leonid Kuchma of the Ukrain

The Supreme Court is going to decide whether two sisters who can't see without their glasses are dis

When international capital dried up in 1985 because of the Latin American debt crisis, emerging mark

urope and the United States pulled back from opening new fronts in their battles over beef hormones

US yards let carriersfight battle for themI have been following the Jones Act debate for yea

Talking dirty is one thing; talking trash is quite another.Jonathan and I were talking trash

While most Americans are focused on the military operations in the Balkans, the United States is qui

he advent of ocean-shipping reform is not entirely unlike a roller-coaster ride. After chugging tedi

China is a country that always seem to loom larger than life. Whether it is human rights, market opp

How ya doing, world?Such was question No. 1 at last week's International Monetary Fund-World

Rep. Bill McCollum thinks it's his business to know yours. The Florida Republican has seen the enemy

Pilots love it when some outsider, such as a newspaper guy, sticks his nose in and tries to tell the

e thankful Andrew Tyler isn't your son.The 13-year-old New Jerseyan took his im- agination

Rob Quartel, the perennial voice for reform in the U.S. maritime industry, says he is finalizing a b

he Clinton administration isn't faring well in its effort to quietly stick business with much of the

Baltimore has emerged as the only serious U.S. competitor to the Port of New York and New Jersey for

Americans know money doesn't grow on trees. But with specific financial matters, their grasp isn't a

When federal regulators focus on yesterday's issues instead of tomorrow's, the results can be costly

Nation needs trade planand adjustment strategyFederal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's Dall

On May 1 - Saturday - the international container-shipping industry will set sail for a new world wh

he overriding message to President Clinton from Congress this week was clear, even if its specifics

I've been having a little bit of trouble sleeping lately. I keep thinking about those two gun-wieldi

The Beltway is a 64-mile metaphor that encircles Washington, D.C.Politicians who couldn't be

According to Peter Drucker, the basic task of any company is to create a customer. Sounds obvious -

Just 30 years after Charles de Gaulle quit politics after losing a referendum, Gaullism has collapse

new international survey tabs Singapore as the most depressed of seven major Asian countries and

he International Monetary Fund's new contagion credit line sounds good in theory. It would make IMF

What Indonesia needs from the United States and the rest of the West is more carrot and less stick.<

At 12:01 a.m. Saturday the Ocean Shipping Reform Act takes effect, opening a new age of ocean shippi

The Kosovo muddle has again inspired pundits to accuse Democrats in the United States of knowing onl

I'm sitting here talking to my computer. No, I'm not suffering from a lack of companionship and ther

The old locks and dams that take millions of tons of freight and farm products up and down the Missi

After dropping by 33 percent last year, to an average of $12.71 a barrel for Brent crude, oil prices

It appears that irrational exuberance in many of Asia's financial markets has returned.Time

A tenth-of-a-cent marginis still cost-effectiveI do not like to take issue with my friend Wa