Thanks for this Amos. I'm feeling just a little less alone in the world.

I don't know ALL the details on Shirley Temple-Black, but she is a co-founder of the National Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies, dear to my heart, and has a long history of selfless activism.

As far as moving diplomats around...my friend from the Peace Corps said that in his training they were taught that when a person first lives in another country they feel EVERYTHING in that culture is good (better than their own culture). The next phase is to feel that EVERYTHING is bad (worse than their own). Only after time do they experience a balanced view, that there is good and evil in all.