All posts tagged U.S.

Wednesday Night #1551
November 23, 2011, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1551

The Report The discussion was enlivened by the arrival of the Greek contingent fresh from the Roundtable Analysis and Di ...

The IMF 2011
November 20, 2011, Comments Off on The IMF 2011

In recognition of the unprecedented attention accorded to the International Monetary Fund (a topic previously ignored by ...

Wednesday Night #1540
September 7, 2011, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1540

In memorium A memorial service was held today in Victoria Hall commemorating the life of the late Sally Aitken. The larg ...

Wednesday Night #1537
August 17, 2011, 1 Comment

Brian Morel introduced his good friend Jean-Louis Thémis, chef cuisinier at the Quebec Tourism and Hotel Institute (yes ...

Wednesday Night #1536
August 10, 2011, 4 Comments

It was a great pleasure to have John Evdokias introduce his wife, Dominique Beauchamp, who, despite her youthful appeara ...

The Madoff affair
July 30, 2011, 2 Comments

Vanity Fair has followed the Madoff story tenaciously. The size and extent of the damage caused by the Bernie Madoff (ye ...

Wednesday Night #1534
July 27, 2011, 2 Comments

The difference between the optimist and the pessimist is the pessimist has a little more information The Scribe’s ...

Aging population
July 21, 2011, Comments Off on Aging population

Charles Cogan offers a more light-hearted perspective: 90 may be the new 50 — but it doesn’t matter in the l ...

Wednesday Night #1533
July 20, 2011, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1533

The Prologue Maureen Farrow‘s appearance this Wednesday could not be more timely; we eagerly await her world view. ...

Wednesday Night #1527
June 8, 2011, 1 Comment

 Despite the seriousness of the principal topic, the evening’s debate was filled with laughter. See Wednesday-Nig ...