Petr,

I think that your point is really an important one(sorry, I hadn't gotten your post when I wrote the one above)--the most interesting thing about this topic is that it is a topic--and I have thought about how it came to be such a big topic--

I went back and read the first articles--from the first few days, when the story was just getting put together--It is an amazing story--forget the politics--the story that the survivors told about the overcrowded boat, the engine dying, the boat taking on water--everyone taking to the inner tubes, and one by one just giving up hope and letting go of the tubes, til no one was left but this little six year old--and he just held on--

He didn't just survive--he watched while ten adults, one of whom was his mother, gave up and died, one by one--and he just held on--

That's the story--and they don't get any better than that!!!