The Attenborough family loss is also very saddening. Mr. Attenborough has given millions of us enormous pleasure with his stage and film work. Veronica > [Original Message] > From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 12/29/2004 5:58:24 PM > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Priorities > > =0D=0AHello Teemu > > Interesting. Blair is on vacation *and did not come back* -- the BBC > attacked him for it while attacking his Minister for Whatever for not > pledging more... > > -- Blair is in Egypt. I don't know where Brown is, but most likely > Scotland or those Eastern US islands where smart Americans go. Your pols (= > and > former pols) are clearly more adventurous. > > But among the dead Brits is the granddaughter of (Sir) > Richard Attenborough; his daughter and her mother-in-law are missing, > believed dead. That will have had an effect... > > Judy > > > > > Wednesday, December 29, 2004, 10:26:51 PM, you wrote: > > TP> Something interesting happening here. Former Finnish > TP> Finance Minister Sauli Niinist=F6 spent hours hanging to > TP> a telephone pole on a Thai beach with his two sons. He > TP> flew back today, and he is seriously mad at Finnish > TP> government in particular and European governments in > TP> general for not doing enough to help. He is nowadays a > TP> VP in European Investment Bank which handles most of > TP> development financing outside EU among other things. > TP> So I guess the aid effort has at least one > TP> enthusiastic and fairly powerful backer, Gordon Brown > TP> wouldn't have had happened to be on vacation by any > TP> chance, Judy? > > > TP> Cheers, > TP> Teemu > TP> Helsinki, Finland > > mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html