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Wednesday Night #1427
July 8, 2009, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1427

Science and ethics The announcement that British scientists claim to have created human sperm in the laboratory from emb ...

Rick Sindelar on Iran
June 24, 2009, Comments Off on Rick Sindelar on Iran

Protesters’ tenacity to decide the future in Iran By H. RICHARD SINDELAR (Houston Chronicle) The mullahs have miscalcu ...

Wednesday Night #1424
June 17, 2009, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1424

Update on Hungary Although the member nations of the European Union have benefited enormously from the elimination of ph ...

Tom Flanagan on Stephen Harper
June 15, 2009, Comments Off on Tom Flanagan on Stephen Harper

The way Mr. Flanagan sees it now, Stephen Harper is adrift in a vacuum of policy and principle, conniving only to retain ...

Thomas Friedman: Winds of Change?
June 14, 2009, Comments Off on Thomas Friedman: Winds of Change?

Twenty years ago, I wrote a book about the Middle East, and recently I was thinking of updating it with a new introducti ...

William F. Buckley Jr. Is Dead
June 13, 2009, Comments Off on William F. Buckley Jr. Is Dead

Conrad Black’s umbrage over the Christopher Buckley memoir of his remarkable parents does less to diminish the boo ...

Wednesday Night #1422
June 3, 2009, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1422

The Fondation universitaire Pierre Arbour  funds students in three disciplines that contribute to Quebec’s econom ...

Statement by Helen Fotopulos
June 1, 2009, Comments Off on Statement by Helen Fotopulos

See also Montreal and Montreal on Wednesday-Night.com Photograph by: Allen McInnis, Gazette file photo Statement by Hele ...

Enough With the 100 Days Already
May 3, 2009, Comments Off on Enough With the 100 Days Already

By Frank Rich (NYT Op-Ed) BELIEVE it or not, there are Americans who have a “very negative” opinion of Barack Obama ...

Wednesday Night #1416
April 22, 2009, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1416

An unexpected visit from Maureen Farrow stimulated a lively exchange about the role of banks and financial institutions ...

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