A working group like this with only two years to go in an administration worrying about its place in history must be one of two things, only: 1. we are referring this to committee so that we can say we did something without having actually to do anything (what is sometimes rendered in Italian as a "bella figura") 2. we already have our draft conclusions in white paper form and we need to have the appearance of due process A betting pool might be in order, but I narrowly favor #2 --dan