Phil Lader, the U.S. ambassador to the Court of St. James, gave a talk recently in London at the annual Christmas lunch (about 600 people) of the American Chamber of Commerce. During his brief remarks, he said that we have to find a way to govern multiethnic societies such as America's, "in which African-Americans make up one third of the population." Nothing like an accurate representation of American reality abroad. Lader then tried to tell a joke. "America has just celebrated Thanksgiving. When the holiday first started, the Puritans gave thanks that they had been saved from the Indians. This year, Americans gave thanks that they had been saved from the Puritans." The anti-Starr campaign has reached London, it seems.