IPhoto importing to My Events

Is there a way to import photos I've received via email into my events on iPhoto?
Photos that are sent to me on email, I've had trouble importing to iPhoto09.
Thank you.

in Apple Mail to the right of the "save" button click and hold the little gray triangle - use the save to iPhoto command from the resulting menu
Or save them to a desktop folder and import from there
LN

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