Wow!

[Robert Lawless]

According to her biography in Wikipedia, "When the twins were born six 
weeks prematurely, [Madeliene] Albright took a course in Russian as a 
distraction. By the end of their hospital stay, she was fluent in the 
language." Dang! I studied Russian for years and never became fluent. 
Didn't Margaret Mead once say she could learn a language in three months? 
(And didn't she later retract this statement?) Robert.