Ban's already an improvement

Nearly everything I've heard about the new UN Secretary-General Ban has been good. Or, at least, comparatively good--compared, that is, to his predecessor Kofi Annan.

Now he's done two reasonable things, after only a couple of days on the job: refused to condemn the execution of Saddam Hussein in the usual pious and doctrinaire UN fashion, and stated a commitment to dealing with Darfur.