I've enjoyed many European holiday traditions such as Santa Lucia Day in Scandinavia and St. Nicholas Day in the Netherlands and Belgium. But one of the most memorable wasn't European at all.
With the ballots in Sunday's Nicaraguan presidential election still being counted, former Marxist guerrilla Daniel Ortega looks close to a dramatic return to power at the third time of trying.
When Gen. Omar Halleslevens was installed Monday in Managua as chief of the Nicaraguan army, the U.S. government was represented by a mere major at the change-of-command ceremony.
The present writer has long tended to twitch uncontrollably any time somebody speaks warmly of Jimmy Carter, so he has been more spastic than usual lately. Esteemwise -- there is no denying it -- J...
Under American law, you are ineligible for public assistance if you have as little as $1,000 in financial assets. Although occasionally denounced as excessively hard-nosed, the requirement is all t...
An affirmative-action program at the Columbia Law Review that goes far beyond similar plans at other student legal publications . . . will set aside up to five extra places on its enlarged staff of...
And now for a bit of brain exercise. Several weeks ago, we were flipping the pages of The Sciences, a high-class magazine published by the New York Academy of Sciences, and came across the followin...
I've enjoyed many European holiday traditions such as Santa Lucia Day in Scandinavia and St. Nicholas Day in the Netherlands and Belgium. But one of the most memorable wasn't European at all.
With the ballots in Sunday's Nicaraguan presidential election still being counted, former Marxist guerrilla Daniel Ortega looks close to a dramatic return to power at the third time of trying.
When Gen. Omar Halleslevens was installed Monday in Managua as chief of the Nicaraguan army, the U.S. government was represented by a mere major at the change-of-command ceremony.
The present writer has long tended to twitch uncontrollably any time somebody speaks warmly of Jimmy Carter, so he has been more spastic than usual lately. Esteemwise -- there is no denying it -- J...
Under American law, you are ineligible for public assistance if you have as little as $1,000 in financial assets. Although occasionally denounced as excessively hard-nosed, the requirement is all t...
An affirmative-action program at the Columbia Law Review that goes far beyond similar plans at other student legal publications . . . will set aside up to five extra places on its enlarged staff of...
And now for a bit of brain exercise. Several weeks ago, we were flipping the pages of The Sciences, a high-class magazine published by the New York Academy of Sciences, and came across the followin...
As expected, the media reacted affirmatively to the Supreme Court decision in Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins. They always approve when the decision makes it easier to claim bias. They said this one wa...
LOS ANGELES -- Long Beach City College will upgrade its women's sports program and pay $85,000 to settle a discrimination suit. The American Civil Liberties Union sued the college four years ago, a...
Okay, the word above is not pretty. It does not roll trippingly off the tongue. But friends, we need a label for the omnipresent media mafiosi who go around casting left-liberal ideas as ''pragmati...
Michael Shane, founder of Leading Edge Products, made a lot of enemies in the personal computer industry. He gained notoriety partly by demanding that dealers pay him in advance for the low-cost IB...
First of all, we doubt that House Speaker Jim Wright spent more than 25 minutes working on Reflections of a Public Man (Madison Publishing Co., $5.95), an oeuvre of 117 pages expected to soon becom...
For those of you who still flinch when you enter one of those . . . opulent spending palaces that line our commercial boulevards, there is help on the way: . . . a whole line of socially acceptable...
We have been meaning to write about the college commencement scene for several Junes now and to register this funny feeling that some will doubtless diagnose as neoconservative paranoia but that ha...
What, we keep wondering, is the New York Times trying to tell us about Central America? Plainly, something of moment. Otherwise, why would a certain 12-person editorial board situated at 229 West 4...
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