commanded find minds since cicero. we got francis bacon, dr. johnson and the kind of aid we call book reviews have fine minds. virginia woolf who wrote who i think every week during a certain period of her life wrote book reviews and signed. i don't like to do anything unsigned particularly that is not especially well played except when the pay is good. how does and as a differ from a lesser notice of a book? it is very simple it seems to me. it differs in the way art differs from what is not. that is to say it should be shapely. it should be deep as well as personal. the personal is often attached. this is perhaps the noblest function of book reviewing and i think it is what we should aim for even if we only have 500 words which i have had in my lifetime and i am sure you have. if we achieve it our work will be no more in need of defending than a poem or a novel. if you think your situation is tough, considered dance reviewing which is the other thing that i do. thank you very much. [applause] >> good evening. i have had the pleasure of chairi

host: jennifer our cicero, indiana, go ahead.aller: in which country does most diplomatic crimes occur, or and is there a particular country they come from as well in general? guest: oh, gosh, i don't have a breakdown, and it's probably the garden-variety crimes of your kids smoked marijuana or you failed to obey the traffic regulations. i don't know really. the ones that make the headlines obviously are ones that are in strategic relationships, but what happens in a small country with a small country just doesn't even penetrate the blogosphere. i don't think anybody systematically collects that, to my knowledge. host: let's take this call on our line for independents out of phoenix this morning. good morning. caller: good morning. host: good morning. caller: i want to absolutely compliment your guest this morning. i wish i could take her course. but i know, i know that we have this mentality in this country and a diplomat is perceive as above it all. but i think that if we can go 200 years with a gentleman, and i hope essentiall