I am good at down grading - I have found I can live the same lifestyle in a two-bedroom apartment as in a five-bedroom house.
The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.

