Word: pressing
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...President Vladimir Putin, who appears to have reveled in the attention. Like an emerging rock star not yet comfortable with his celebrity, Putin has the disarming - in more ways than one - habit of signing autographs for just about anyone who asks. So when he finished a late-night press conference Thursday, he found himself mobbed by journalists and officials seeking his John Hancock on any available piece of paper. Simply to catch his breath, he was finally forced to retreat into a private meeting room off the Security Council chamber. As Putin and Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov made it through...
...getting the Games. "My guess is that China wanted to make very, very sure that there will be no positive tests at Sydney," Nils Lindstedt, chief China representative for the anti-doping group, International Doping Tests and Management, told TIME Asia. "They can't afford any more bad press...
...world leaders present. But the wily Cuban strongman, who has outlasted eight U.S. presidents, wasn't about to sulk off to a movie. He simply went back to the same Harlem church he'd addressed in the early '60s for an uproarious pep rally that drew most of the press corps (and the headlines) away from the Clinton event...
...President Clinton is hosting a reception for dignitaries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Wednesday night, but nobody's expecting the guest list to include the bearded one. But Castro is a big man, and can't easily be ignored, so the big question that has the press corps buzzing is "What will Fidel do next?" He blew into Manhattan at midday on Tuesday and went straight into meetings with China's President Jiang Zemin and with Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammed. Later that night, he met some unspecified American "friends" at Cuba's U.N. mission...
...Clymer's job to compare the public image created by the Bush-Cheney ticket with both men's record - and the politician for whom such scrutiny is a comfortable experience is indeed an exotic species. The Gore campaign's comments about having nothing but the highest regard for the press ought, too, to be taken with copious amounts of salt - after all, the vice president was once an ink-stained wretch himself...