with crossed olive branches.

I've heard a lot of 'explanations' of the utter *Necessity* for this principle - in any society which truly insists upon survival longer than the next 'Selected Despot'. Yours goes to the core of the rubric as well as any - and a hell of a lot quicker than most!

Kudos.



Ashton
And your observation about a coming epiphany - is Right On too :-) Will we be up to that with an Ashcroft running the store?