some kind of  :)  thing on certain lines when I'm corresponding with you. Here I thought that that was a particularly good joke about the Russian names. So - I am enjoying Natasha's Dance period - no qualifications, no 'jokes'.

Saw your comment in the OT concerning the antiquities issue in Iraq, so I'm going to assume that you saw that at the U of C museum. What an amazing collection for a university - it seems to show that, in some circumstances, it's better for the artifacts to be 'stolen', so that they can be preserved, displayed, and discussed as in that collection.

paul spencer