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Ralph Nader on civic action
August 17, 2005, Comments Off on Ralph Nader on civic action

A brief summary of Ralph Nader’s lecture at the Festival citoyen Prologue  First of all readers should be warned ...

Wednesday Night #1222 with Maggie Catley-Carlson
August 15, 2005, 1 Comment

3 August 2005 The Invitation Thanks to our mutual friend, Peter Ratzer , we are delighted to welcome Margaret (“Ma ...

Wednesday Night #1296 – Omar Aktouf & Kimon Valskakis
April 13, 2005, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1296 – Omar Aktouf & Kimon Valskakis

April 13, 2005 Matter can neither be created nor destroyed. It can, however, be transformed.Energy can neither be create ...

Wednesday Night #1202
March 16, 2005, 2 Comments

March 16, 2005 Bernard Ebbers It seems only normal that Bernard Ebbers, former C.E.O. of WorldCom, be a topic at Wednesd ...

Wednesday Night #1200
March 2, 2005, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1200

Recognition of recent deaths There was a brief recognition of two recent deaths: Hunter Thompson, the inventor of “ ...

Wednesday Night #1199 – Peter Ratzer & Pension Funds
February 23, 2005, 1 Comment

23 February 2005 The end of an era? John Peel is turning over in his grave. Hounds may no longer kill the foxes that the ...

Wednesday Night #1198
February 16, 2005, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1198

See also #1198 on Wednesday-Night.com The Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change has kicked in, Canada has no plan and the U.S ...

Jacques Clément on China's economy
February 9, 2005, Comments Off on Jacques Clément on China's economy

After 9½% economic growth lat year, China (Asia’s fastest growing economy and the second largest in the world). C ...

Wednesday Night #1194
January 19, 2005, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1194

January 19, 2005 What is art? A video news clip of the opening of the Moishe Safdie-designed Desmarais Pavilion of the M ...

Wednesday Night 1186
November 24, 2004, Comments Off on Wednesday Night 1186

More on Wednesday-Night.com Return of an early Wednesday Nighter Christopher Halsted, a classmate of Marc Nicholson, ret ...

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