<html><BR><FONT size=3><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">When I was lecturing in the erstwhile </SPAN>“German Democratic Republic” [sic], a<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>colleague said that the “changeover” (“Wende”) has “brought many advantages and disadvantages”, and I said: “the disadvantages have been far more ‘democratically’ distributed”.</SPAN></FONT><BR><BR><BR><FONT size=3>Welcome to capitalism...</FONT><BR><BR></html>