Commentary

What do you want people to say about you when you're gone?''That bum owed me 50 bucks.'' Or,

George Santayana once observed that ''fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have f

Chile's foreign minister is in London trying to persuade the British to release Gen. Augusto Pinoche

It is given to few people to invent their own language, but Diego Marani, an Italian translator in B

Since the advent of the Asian economic crisis, we have been at pains to remind investors that, when

While many factors underlie the perennial resiliency of the U.S. economy, one of the driving forces

Isn't it ironic? We now have three of the major instigators of the Department of Justice's suit agai

A visit to the newly restored main reading room of the New York Public Library's Center for the Huma

The Taiwanese financial sector is showing increasing signs of strain that mirror the deflationary co

Tony Blair made a noteworthy speech last week in what was an unusual location for a British leader:

This column was written from Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam as I completed my tour of our compan

In hearings held during the closing days of the last Congress, the Senate Commerce Committee signale

Gen. Augusto Pinochet has returned to haunt Europe's ''new left'' leaders.The leading player

As logistics reporter for the Journal of Commerce, I'm often asked by people at parties what exactly

Small, furry, interactive toys aren't the only hot-selling dolls this Christmas season. A leather-cl

For two weeks in November, streams of visitors passed through House members' offices, but they weren

When Prime Minister Zhu Rongji toured eastern China earlier this year to inspect the provincial grai

The European Union's grand strategy to create a rail-based freight system is in tatters.The

With the election returns draining ideological venom from Capitol Hill, attention should be given to

It was all they had left. They were out of yellow, lined pads, so there wasn't a choice. I had to bu

Although the federal government's capacity for capricious behavior sometimes seems boundless, it is

Rex Harrison asked in ''My Fair Lady'': ''Why can't a woman be more like a man?'' They can, and need

People accustomed to cool, crisp sheets don't admit they're sleeping on straw.Therein is the

The Chinese word for crisis is made up of two characters: danger and opportunity. We know all too we

Congress has constitutional authority to regulate the domestic and external value of money. In the 1

British retailers are suffering from a shortage of fat men this Christmas season, Reuters reports. S

What a difference a few years make!In the 1982 race for a U.S. Senate seat in New Jersey, co

Barely 10 days after an attack on Iraq was called off at the last moment, public perceptions of the

President Clinton stopped off in South Korea this past weekend on his delayed East Asian tour. While

Ask any trade pundit in Washington what the outlook for trade legislation on Capitol Hill is next ye

I write today to offer a clarification to your article titled ''APL's move could drive rates down in

Remember grandma's beef stew, where she'd toss in a little of this and a lot of that and would, some

Just before the elections, American farmers got a present of about $6 billion in cash from the feder

Congress should resist the temptation to grant any more mass amnesties to illegal immigrants. Amnest

As you tuck into your first slice of turkey this Thanksgiving, spare a thought for the supermarket w

Beneath the office blocks and factories that compose its landscape today, this modern, industrious c

The steel industries of the United States and Europe are reaching once again for their favorite comp

Nobody disputes the fact that Albania is Europe's poorest country. The race to replace Marx with Mam

The Mexican peso crisis of 1994-95 and the more recent currency crises in Asia, Russia and Brazil ha

I've logged my sixth ''dogsbody.''The writer was Lord Jeffrey Archer, who said in a Viewpoin