In my childhood I learned “variety is the spice of life.” Because I was born into a culture in which spicy food is revered, variety, to me, was a good thing. I spent my entire childhood in what wa
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I truly believe that hell hath no fury like women and unions scorned, so I expect heavyweight boxing over decisions involving Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Target. On June 20, the U.S. Supreme Court infu
On Feb. 19, MarketWatch.com, the Dow Jones subsidiary that provides stock market quotes and business and financial news, reported that executives of China’s Cnooc Ltd. asked to delay the signing of
On Feb. 19, MarketWatch.com, the Dow Jones subsidiary that provides stock market quotes and business and financial news, reported that executives of China’s Cnooc Ltd. asked to delay the signing of
I was glued to the television every night from the “day of rage” on Jan. 25 to Feb. 11, as an anti-government protest in Egypt morphed into a full-blown revolution that ended the 30-year reign of
Discrimination is a multimillion-dollar cost factor in the business of doing business. Perpetrators have to pay up when caught: victims must be compensated; lawyers must be paid; and, in the after
Every Christmas, for the few years that my brothers and I attended her Sunday school, Ms. Smith recounted the story of a little boy who, when asked to explain the significance of Christmas, said, “C
On Saturdays, I like to walk around the commercial section of my community. It’s a bustling enclave of small businesses, stretching several blocks in either direction of the intersection of two of t
If imitation is the best form of flattery, then the jobless immigrants who introduced dollar vans to U.S. commerce are due for some puffing up. So, too, does the informal economy, where dollar van-typ
Nothing is sweeter than the cry “Fight!” on a warm day in grade school. As summer temperatures tug at lawmakers in Washington, a fight has broken out between Sen. Byron L. Dorgan, a North Dakota d
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