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The UN and governance
March 4, 2010, Comments Off on The UN and governance

The decline of the international civil servant (Foreign Policy) The U.N. practice of hiring political appointees has ens ...

Wednesday Night #1461
March 3, 2010, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1461

More on Wednesday-Night.com The evening started on a somber note, as Diana noted with sadness the deaths of Judith Patte ...

The Politics of Earthquakes
March 3, 2010, Comments Off on The Politics of Earthquakes

If the earthquakes in Chile and Haiti carry any message for those of us fortunate enough not to live in those places, pe ...

Vancouver Olympics 2010
February 28, 2010, 3 Comments

Perhaps the last word belongs to Brian Williams of NBC, who left behind this thank-you note on his blog: “Before w ...

Conrad Black
January 28, 2010, 2 Comments

Conrad Black addresses McGill students via prison phone Conrad Black has published a thousand-page biography of Richard ...

Wednesday Night #1456
January 27, 2010, 2 Comments

The hate and the quake … for too long there has been a popular perception that somehow the Haitian nation-building ...

U.S. post 20 Jan 2009
January 20, 2010, Comments Off on U.S. post 20 Jan 2009

 Next week, the speech will be pretty much forgotten, and people will scratch their heads to remember a single quote fr ...

Canada & the world II
December 31, 2009, Comments Off on Canada & the world II

G8 Summit July 8-10 2009 ; Canada & the Arctic Is Security Council Seat a Tory Priority? (Embassy August 2009) Exper ...

U.S. economy 2009
December 14, 2009, 2 Comments

NYT  Financial crisis one year later ;  Joseph Cassano, former head of A.I.G.’s Financial Products unit: The Man Who ...

President Obama and Afghanistan
December 7, 2009, Comments Off on President Obama and Afghanistan

Text of President Obama’s speech More on Afghanistan here and Afghanistan on Wednesday-night.com Jeffrey Sachs: Th ...

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