Search

If Superintendent Peter Horoschak had his way, most of the sixth graders who entered the middle school in Maplewood, N.J., this month would truly be on the same page. Last [...]

From the infamous Dutch tulip hysteria of the 17th century to the Great Depression to the dot-com crash, wild bouts of speculation have occasionally inflated big fat financial bubbles that [...]

Earlier this year, the Bush administration requested $1.3 billion, or a first installment, for the ''Millennium Challenge Account,'' the president's plan to increase foreign aid to unprecedented levels. When combined [...]

Last month, a quartet of academics published ''What's Wrong With the Rorschach?'' -- attacking a test administered to more than a million people worldwide each year. According to recent surveys [...]

Mathematics is one academic subject that would seem to reside in a world of universality, protected from competing opinions by the objectivity of its laws. But the real universal law [...]

Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky's ''Nutcracker'' will be performed on stages from small towns to the New York City Ballet this month -- and in ''literally hundreds of productions around the world,'' [...]

The United American Indians of New England are preparing for their 33rd annual ''National Day of Mourning'' near Plymouth Rock this week. Hundreds are expected to protest on Thanksgiving, according [...]

The recent cases of Michael Kopper, the Enron book-cooker, and John Walker Lindh, the Taliban fellow-traveler, both ended with a practice that, according to Stephen Schulhofer, an N.Y.U. law professor, [...]

WHO SAYS ELEPHANTS CAN'T DANCE? Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround. By Louis V. Gerstner Jr. 372 pp. New York: Harper Business. $27.95. AMERICAN commerce has taken so many turns in the [...]