Mr. Speaker I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1 2006.

In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking when my anger was aroused I grabbed the nearest brick rock or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.

To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now.

I was born in ancient times at the end of the world in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.