*shrug*
Charm, wit and levity,
Will win you in the start,
ut, in the end it's brevity,
That keeps the public's heart...
Quite.
List of Dignitaries Attending Pope's Funeral
ALBANIA: President Alfred Moisiu, Prime Minister Fatos Nano.
ARGENTINA: Vice President Daniel Scioli, Foreign Minister Rafael Bielsa.
AUSTRIA: President Heinz Fischer, Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel,Parliament Speaker Andreas Khol.
BELGIUM: King Albert II, Queen Paola, Prime Minister Guy
Verhofstadt.
BRAZIL: President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
BRITAIN: Prince Charles, Prime Minister Tony Blair.
BULGARIA: President Georgi Parvanov.
CANADA: Prime Minister Paul Martin.
CHILE: Foreign Minister Ignacio Walker.
COLOMBIA: Vice President Francisco Santos.
COSTA RICA: President Abel Pacheco.
CZECH REPUBLIC: President Vaclav Klaus, Foreign Minister Cyril Svoboda.
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: First lady Margarita Cedeno and Ambassador to the Vatican Carlos Rafael Marion-Landais.
EL SALVADOR: First lady Ana Ligia Mixco de Saca, Foreign
Minister Francisco Lainez.
ESTONIA: President Arnold Ruutel.
FINLAND: Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen.
FRANCE: President Jacques Chirac and his wife, Bernadette.
GERMANY: Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, President Horst Koehler.
GUATEMALA: President Oscar Berger and his wife, Foreign Minister Jorge Briz and Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu.
HAITI: Interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue.
HUNGARY: President Ferenc Madl, Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany.
INDIA: Vice-president Bhairon Singh Shekhawat.
IRELAND: President Mary McAleese, Prime Minister Bertie Ahern.
LATVIA: President Vaira Vike-Freiberga.
LEBANON: President Emile Lahoud, Prime Minister Omar Karami.
LIECHTENSTEIN: Prince Hans-Adam II, Princess Marie, Prince Nicholas.
LITHUANIA: President Valdas Adamkus.
LUXEMBOURG: Grand Duke Henri and Grand Duchess Maria Teresa, Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker.
NICARAGUA: President Enrique Bolanos, Foreign Minister Norman Caldera, Ambassador to the Vatican Armando Luna.
PANAMA: First lady Vivian Fernandez de Torrijos.
POLAND: President Aleksander Kwasniewski and his wife, Prime Minister Marek Belka, former President Lech Walesa.
PORTUGAL: European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, President Jorge Sampaio.
ROMANIA: Romanian President Traian Basescu, Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu.
RUSSIA: Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov; Metropolitan Kirill, foreign minister for the Russian Orthodox Church.
SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO: Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova.
SLOVAKIA: President Ivan Gasparovic, Parliament Chairman Pavol Hrusovsky.
SPAIN: Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia.
SWITZERLAND: President Samuel Schmid.
SYRIA: President Bashar Assad.
UNITED NATIONS: Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
UNITED STATES: President George Bush and his wife, Laura.
URUGUAY: First lady Maria Auxiliadora Delgado de Vazquez.
VENEZUELA: Foreign Relations Minister Ali Rodriguez, Planning Minister Jorge Giordanni.
(FOX news also reporting that Presidents George HW Bush and Clinton will also attend)