Commentary

The small man off the overnight flight waited patiently in the Customs line at Kennedy International

Give Commerce Secretary William Daley his due. He laid it on the line, warning senior Chinese offici

isconsin may have lost its status as America's dairy state to California - the Golden State surpass

t's not surprising that the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged at Tuesday's meeting in li

The thought had never before crossed my mind to write that Hong Kong is becoming ''just another Chin

Most of America's big hog and poultry farms are under state-imposed ''zero-discharge'' regulations.<

It is virtually impossible these days to avoid articles in the popular press that hail the dawn of a

ew York City and State gave themselves an expensive Christmas present this week. They agreed to put

This has turned out to be a heck of a hard year for the pundit. All you want to do is write a nice y

Intermodal transportation continues to increase in international prominence. While intermodal confer

Some holiday catalogs, those faithful friends of harried shoppers, soared to poetic heights this sea

It didn't take long for the high-flown rhetoric of last week's U.S.-EU summit to hit the ground with

If you are less than jolly this Christmas travel season about air fares and the choice of flights, d

Novice law students used to get their first introduction to the concept of a tort through an old cas

Too much ''stuff'' on your hard drive? Can't find that letter you sent to Aunt Jennie last Christmas

Currency devaluations, illiquidity, a lack of investor confidence and collapsing financial systems h

Christmas remains America's favorite holiday, a religious celebration that transcends the nation's i

Longshore labor and management on the West Coast each claimed victory last week in the outcome of a

Wall Street has all but abandoned the developing nations. Is Main Street, provider of extensive capi

Many Americans will soon sit down to a traditional Christmas feast. It might include roast turkey, b

oday is decision day for the 22 ship lines that ply the North Atlantic. At a time of unprecedented f

his week saw a red-letter day for devotees of a popular exercise in lexical gymnastics.On De

February, 1868. The Union had won the Civil War - and President Lincoln had been assassinated - not

Too many railroads, shippers and regulators seem unwilling to exert the needed effort to reach compr

With the euro about to be introduced, a manifesto for a socialist Europe with shared economic polici

It's probably just as well that the White House conference on Social Security was all but ignored in

December is the month when those personal year-end updates - the proverbial ''Dear Friends'' letters

Having to hold this year's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in November was bad enough luck,

Christmas lights twinkle brighter for the seafarer home for the holidays.Earlier in the year

Administration of some ''Singapore justice'' has been suggested as one way out of the crime-and-puni

Will fear of being sexually harassed quell employees' ardor for the annual holiday office party? Wil

eople who know about such things suggest that the wave of interest in the RMS Titanic and its tragic

t a time when global economic and political pressures give ever more impetus to protectionism - a ti

resident Clinton's timing in his impeachment-eve attack on Iraq certainly raises questions. But ther

In the early 1970s I watched quarterback Joe Namath, at the height of his popularity, appear on a pa

Intermodal transport is proving to be a touchstone of European integration, and it is already clear

Looking back over this past year, one of the things that clearly changed was the debate over the Jon

Globalization has brought prosperity to the world but also greater risks. In times of financial turm

In reference to the article in Air Commerce headlined ''United chooses to go the premium route'' (No

Late last month, I accompanied Vice President Al Gore to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summi