KOFI Annan very rarely cuts short his year-end vacation. But last week the United Nations Secretary-General had no other choice. The massive tsunami wreaking disastrous havoc that he watched on television was horrifying. Tens of thousands of people lost their lives in dozens of countries. Starting from Indonesia, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, India, Bangladesh, Seychelles, Madagascar to Somalia, Kenya and Tanzania in A