i'd like everyone please to acknowledge david enser. so as adam says, if you want to know my bbiography, flip the pae over and read it yourselves. i'd like to tell you a couple of things you might not know because i'm of an age that i was part of a movement that cheap airfares and curiosity about the world sent all of us out around the globe in, you know, migration that i don't think had ever happened in the united states before when it wasn't associated with a war, so as a result of this, when i was in high school, i was an exchange student in the philippines. when i graduated from college, i worked as an o pair in paris taking care of six children and two bulldogs. i spent the early years of my rear in canada and lest any of you have any misunderstandings, canada was then and is now way more than a foreign country than any of us acknowledge. later i was the second "wall street journal" correspondent in china at a time when the fewly opened country was most definitely a foreign country. since then i worked at five different media organ