  The data from RHIC have produced many unanticipated results. I will describe
a few of the surprises that occur in the soft spectra while my colleagues at
this conference will summarize the hard spectra. One particularly important
discovery is that properties of the initial state have an impact on the final
state in relativistic heavy ion collisions. Another important discovery is that
the collision zone is opaque to the passage of hadrons and perhaps even
partons. And finally, the data tell us very precisely where the colliding
systems hadronize on the phase diagram for nuclear matter.
