Oh, gosh, there are people here! I know, I know, that's what a mailing list is for. ;-) It's just that I got busy after this one was set up and hadn't got around to notifying people about it, so it's kind of a surprise to see people here. Many of whom <blush> I owe message to. At this point, there are only a handful of us here, seven in all. What might make sense would be to contact other BRINSON (etc) researchers with e-mail (all those folk I owe mail to, ouch!) and invite them to join us. Then tomorrow or the next day, once we've increased our ranks a tad, let's post about how we tie into which BRINSON line... Karen karen@rand.org