Ladies and Gentlemen, Distinguished Guests, dear Friends,
It is an honour to be with all of you here today and an even greater honour to have the privilege to greet you at the very beginning of our this year’s Congress. I suppose I am not the only one here who takes coming to Vienna and to Hotel Imperial in the last weekend of January as a constant of my life, as a fixed point in my life program. In the turbulent world of today, we are losing one constant after another, but this one stays – much to my delight – unchanged.
Watching the Christmas decorations come down on Main Street in Edgartown caused a sigh to slip out; it always seems they come down a week too soon but that’s me, someone who’d like to keep Christmas going a while longer. However, as it seemed everyone else on Main Street was stripping away Christmas, we […]
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