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IT WAS VERY GOOD TO BRING OUR MEETING BACK TO NEW ORLEANS at long last, given the many challenges we've faced in doing so after Hurricane Katrina. We seem to have beaten another storm--this one economic--by holding our meeting in mid-October. I think that if we had met a month later, with the economy in free fall, we might well have seen a significant drop-off in terms of attendance. As it was, we did see a small number of cancellations just prior to the meeting but still counted 1,350 registered attendees, which is below the usual turnout for our meetings in New Orleans but above our average meeting attendance in recent years.
We are grateful to a great many ...