MasterCard continues to move forward with the important customer and consumer programming related to the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, which begins in June. A significant number of our customer financial institutions, more than 300 of them, are activating business-building programs worldwide.

We are trying to drive the message, drive the solutions and get the industry moving. Consumers are important, but they aren't the main driver.

Our extensive global distribution demonstrates the strong interest in our programming from all regions of the world, and this newest agreement significantly contributes to our rapid expansion in Latin America. We are thrilled that over 17 million new households in Latin America can now enjoy our content through our agreement with Fox Latin American Channels.

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.

A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants.

I don't think our Beat Generation would even be known as that, had it not been for Ginsberg. You might say he put that whole concept together. Without it, we might have been known, but only as individuals. Separate, great writers, scattered across the landscape.