An awkward dinner guest

An uninvited dinner guest.

Dinner Speech at the Ceda Vip Dinner Climate Change Mitigation: an Update on Global Initiatives

The recent Climate Summits, in particular Copenhagen in 2009 and Durban in 2011, were at least disappointing. Many negotiators, many heads of state had hoped that they could bring home a more satisfying result. It has turned out that reaching international cooperation is much more complicated and much more time-consuming than many observers anticipated. Pursuing their own interests nation state...

Mobilization Forum: Awkward Movements

Several years ago, Gay Seidman complained in an article in Mobilization that scholars of the South African antiapartheid movement had so ignored the role of armed struggle as to leave the impression that the movement and its most famous leader, Nelson Mandela, were nonviolent in the Gandhian mold. In fact, Mandela was the first military commander of the African National Congress. He owed his po...

Reunion Dinner

as a success and it has been decided to repeat it this year. The dinner will be in the Criterion Restaurant, Piccadilly Circus, London, W.I., on Saturday, 21st June, 1947, at 7-30 or 8 o'clock. Several Indian psychiatrists, members of the I.A.M.C., are temporarily in London; and this letter may catch the eye of others who propose to be in the U.K. during the summer on holiday or for post-gradua...

A Business Dinner Problem

We are given suppliers and customers, and a set of tables. Every evening of the forthcoming days, there will be a dinner. Each customer must eat with each supplier exactly once, but two suppliers may meet at most once. The number of customers and the number of suppliers who can sit together at a table are bounded above by fixed parameters. What is the minimum number of evenings to be scheduled ...