Most tourists are on tight schedules and have little time for hairstyling and those tourists who are part of the growing number of bus excursions have the least time of all.

I know everybody is on tight schedules, so what we'll do here is we'll have Assistant Secretary Blake provide some of his opening remarks and then we'll turn it over to callers to ask their questions.

But because many visitors are on tight schedules, and may have fondly assumed that Europe's cultural treasures are surely on display every day at least in summer, the "if it's Tuesday it must be Paris" brigade will miss out on the Louvre.