[applause] not that everybody doesn't miss frank easterbrook. [laughter] and the extraordinary service that frank easterbrook did for so many years. and thank you again for that, frank. [applause] thank you, diane, for taking over this responsibility and doing everything that you're doing. you know, i always, i worry sometimes a little bit when i start thinking about this event. i start thinking, well, what am i going to talk about? they're going to want me to say something. but you guys always invite such great people, like my favorite people. so i just say, that's okay, i'll just introduce don. [laughter] like i think it was last year, i'll just introduce the chief justice, or i'll introduce justice stevens. so that is my task tonight, and it is really a pleasure because there is no lawyer that i respect more than don, and it's great to be able to share a little bit with you tonight about why that's so. now, sometimes people ask me, you know, it's like, actually, impossible to see your notes up here. impossible. [laughter] i mean, is there a l