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Wednesday Night #1498
November 17, 2010, 2 Comments

Welcome to #3 of Wednesday Night 2.0. Former IMF chief lays out plan for global monetary overhaul (Emerging Markets) Lea ...

Wednesday Night #1497
November 10, 2010, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1497

In vino veritas             Money has no intrinsic value.  Coins and bills represent no more than two entrie ...

Wednesday Night #1496
November 3, 2010, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1496

Politics is a branch of show business U.S. mid-term elections The United States, in some ways is the election bellwether ...

Nicholsons host final Westmount salon
November 3, 2010, Comments Off on Nicholsons host final Westmount salon

By Robert J. Galbraith Wednesday Nights will no longer be the same Do you know where you have been every Wednesday eveni ...

Stanley Baker R.I.P.
November 1, 2010, 1 Comment

Stanley Baker dies at 87 By Wayne Larsen Last words were “What is this mishegas? I was having such a good time. ...

Ted Sorensen 1928-2010
November 1, 2010, Comments Off on Ted Sorensen 1928-2010

Ted Sorensen, JFK’s speechwriter and defender, dies at 82 By Martin Weil and Emma Brown Washington Post Staff Writ ...

Wednesday Night #1495
October 27, 2010, 1 Comment

`The time has come,’ the Walrus said, `To talk of many things: Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-wax ...

Victor Melnikoff R.I.P.
October 25, 2010, 8 Comments

Victor Melnikoff Victor Michael Melnikoff, lawyer, dance gala impresario (born at Shanghai, China 10 Feb 1944, died at M ...

Wednesday Night #1494
October 20, 2010, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1494

The changes in the workplace and the increasing multiplicity of skills required is reflected in the evolution of Human R ...

Wednesday Night #1493
October 13, 2010, 1 Comment

“You can’t go back.”  Visiting the place of one’s childhood, (and/or youth in the case of old a ...