I Have Come to Praise Charm, not Bury it

Abstract

The case for further dedicated studies of charm dynamics is presented as driven by three complementary motivations: core lessons on QCD and nonperturbative dynamics in general can be learnt; those can be applied with great profit in analyses of B decays; charm decays offer a novel portal to New Physics in particular through CP studies.

Comments: 12 pages, no figures, LATEX; Invited talk given at FPCP04 in Daegu (Korea), Oct. 5 - 10, 2004