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Communist Party General Secretary Jiang Zemin's scheduled visit to Washington, D.C., this fall will be the first time a Chinese head of state has come to the White House since [...]

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, [...]

Points out that William Loeb, the publisher of the "Manchester Union Leader" had greatly influenced the course of politics in New Hampshire until his death in 1981. "Union Leader" as the only daily newspaper in the state; Impact of Loeb's editorials on politics in New Hampshire and in the whole U.S.; Loeb's appeal to the working-class populism of Manchester's ethnic Democrats.

Focuses on the inequities persistent among congressional employees in the U.S. Information on an equal pay bill for federal employees; View that blacks and Hispanics are recruited for political reasons, but their participation in actual policy development has increased negligibly; Reference to a Supreme Court case which upheld employee's constitutional right of due process, but sidestepped Congress's repeated failure to include itself under its own employment statutes.

Place you virtual bets. By the year 2000, according to conservative estimates, online gambling will be an $8-$10 billion business. About 20 sites already offer live, online betting on casino [...]

Once & Future Address ONE OF THE NATION'S GREAT OLD soldiers has recently faded from the American memory, and his once-elegant mansion has too. But thanks to a group of [...]

The decision by the board to refuse permission to sing christmas carols in the name of secularism in schools is criticized. All religions and cultures are claimed to be honored, but the secular institutions teach nothing about them to the children, and it is believed that no amount of studying the history, traditions and celebrations of religions can equal the hearing of songs of all faiths, which bring enlightenment.

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 [...]

IN JULY OF 1997, A STRANGE CASE walked through the door of Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker's office on Maryland's Eastern Shore. 'This fellow had been waterskiing for about an hour on [...]

WELL, IT WON'T BE THE MAYOR'S MANSION, after all. Even so, property values around 400 T Street NW are in for a case of the bends when jesse jackson finally [...]