Wednesday-Night

4 April 2007
Please let us know if you can be with us - we need to hide the Easter eggs!
As we hear the hippity hoppity of Easter Rabbits advancing along the bunny trail, scattering Easter eggs as they go (is this zoologically possible?), we are happy to welcome Gerald Ratzer back from smog-ridden Shanghai and […]

Last week’s Wednesday Night discussion was overtaken by events and thus focused mostly on local issues, with the exception of conspiracy theories. This week we are faced with such world turmoil, we are hesitant to point to specific topics as possibilities, but let us try out some of the more flagrant headlines and see how […]

3 August 2005
The Invitation
Thanks to our mutual friend, Peter Ratzer , we are delighted to welcome Margaret (”Maggie”) Catley- Carlson, who, among her many activities serves as Chair of the Global Water Partnership. She is also a past Chair of the Center for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI) and of the International Center for Agricultural […]

The Report (photos and more)
This Wednesday’s invitation advertised “we have Misha Crnobrnja back from a very successful tour at William and Mary and just about to leave again for Macedonia. We look forward to hearing his usual informed opinion regarding the latest thinking in Washington regarding Kosovo, what is most likely to happen […]

Wednesday Night, the Spicer Commission and Water
As we pulled into the parking lot of our hotel in Saint Augustine one evening, the car phone rang and it was Marc, then a student at Concordia University, and holding the Wednesday Night fort in our absence, asking us what we knew about somebody named Spicer and […]