U.S. competitiveness in 5 easy pieces
"Most of it doesn't add up to much." The line comes from "Five Easy Pieces," a Jack Nicholson film in which an oil rigger describes his failed career, a series...
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Investors love supersize too
People just back from a visit to the country have a glazed look. They can speak of nothing but their trip. Those cars in the streets where bicycles once passed....
What de Gaulle can teach us about Iraq
The Allies decide to dump their man, the very exile they groomed to take over after the liberation. His transgressions have been breathtaking. The man is an ingrate. He is...
Class war an attack on America
George W. Bush has a war, and now John Kerry has one too--a class war. At Georgetown University last week, Kerry opened fire when he vowed to raise taxes on...
How Amazon.com became my savior
One of the challenges of being a working mother is the questions asked of you. My least favorite is: "How do you do it?" For a decade now I have...
German dissenter on `old Europe’
Everyone is talking about the new Europe these days, so I thought I might seek her out. Who is this creature who dares to diss Schroeder, Fischer and French President...
A reform plan for Palestinians
With his new plan to drive Cuba toward freedom with human-rights demands, President Bush is taking a page out of the old Cold War book. His support for the continued...
Bush looks beyond Arafat
To read the European papers, you would believe that the Bush administration reversed itself this past week on the Middle East conflict. After looking away when Prime Minister Ariel Sharon...