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...Flanked by the immigrants and family members, Chavez stood in the Bush-Cheney transition pressroom - without a single member of Bush's support staff - and struck a defiant note. Citing her own difficult beginnings and the support of friends and neighbors, Chavez insisted she was only "trying to do right" when she took Mercato in and helped her adjust to life in the United States...
...pressroom, two American journalists were chatting. Suddenly, all conversation stopped. Both men were riveted to a television monitor, where competition from another venue was being pumped in. "I'm covering badminton tomorrow," said a scribe...
Several sports in Sydney have a Patrick Rafter or Anna Kournikova type in the draw--a real looker--but none has anybody to equal badminton's Camilla Martin of Denmark, who was the attraction on the pressroom TV. To say she is smashing is not just to describe her game. But her game, as it happens, is indeed smashing. At 5 ft. 9 in., she is usually taller than her foe, who invariably is a woman from China, Indonesia or South Korea--countries that dominated the sport until the Danes came along...
...There's pandemonium in the pressroom, which was outside of the studio. Gore decided to take questions from kids during the breaks (another action that won him fans), and there was no audio feed to the reporters who travel around with him, and the reporters were not amused. But they should chill. The questions were similar to the ones Gore's been asked before and his answers were largely the same. Instead, the intriguing moments were the small things: A kid must have put out an arm for the veep's autograph. "I'm sorry. I don't sign skin...
...personal edge to queries. They were well-spoken and polite. And the MTV team did a crack job choreographing the whole act, focusing on getting smart, tight questions up to the veep and making the forum serious. But that reportedly was also a disappointment to some in the pressroom as well. An MTV staffer told the story of a local Michigan reporter who'd had the body of his story written, leaving open just his lead, which he thought would be a frivolous kiddy question. As the forum ended he howled, "Where's boxers or briefs?" referring to the infamous...