Give you the readers a bit of a peek behind the curtain because the headlines certainly tell some of the story but not all of the story. Its more difficult to even get information about the socalled trendlines. I wanted to combine both in the hardest part for me about writing this book was that it was believe it or not three times longer when i first finished it. I wanted to put every funny story, every bizarre meal i mean whatever i could remember and wanted to share and the publisher did say you have got to cut twothirds of this book. And so i worked hard to keep the combination of seriousness because obviously theres a lot of that but also the human side. Not just me but what i saw and learned as i traveled around the world. You have never been shy about your opinions but it does seem to me you are free to speak your mind these days. I think thats true from some of their reactions that ive had over the last few days. [laughter] i say in the book that maybe its just the wonderful wea