Convention Diary

Mucho media glare this week for the Bush twins, Jenna and Barbara. Grandma Barbara boasted that her granddaughters had been "a huge hit" with the athletes in Athens. More specifically, it seems the boys of Wrestling USA would like to get them in their grips.

While the "first twins" party in the Apple, Emily Pataki, daughter of New York Governor George, is working as special correspondent for TV celebrity show Extra! She scored a real coup: an exclusive on-camera chat with her Dad.

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Has Madison Square Garden shrunk? To make the setting more intimate, organisers built a false floor 3m above the court where the Knicks usually play. When he accepts the party nomination tomorrow, Bush will be on a different, lower stage in the centre of the arena - among the people is the idea.

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George Pataki may have granted his daughter an interview, but the Arabic news network, al-Jazeera, has not been so lucky. What's more, the network says, its reporters have been pushed and shoved by Pataki heavies. "We were shocked," complained Washington bureau chief Hafez al-Mirazi. '

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