1.   Before the impromptu interview session began, Red Sox shortstop Nomar Garciaparra made one request to the Fourth Estate.

2.   Doing an impromptu interview is nothing much for Tony Brown, who is the most powerful man in Nashville and also its best goodwill ambassador.

3.   In an impromptu interview quickly cut short, County Commission Chairman Garria Spencer had a ready explanation for the investigations, one shared by a number of officials here.

4.   In impromptu interviews at gas stations and road stops Friday afternoon, motorists were nearly unanimous in cheering the prospect of a higher speed limit.

5.   Judging by scores of impromptu interviews here in the past week, however, it is not clear that Saddam would have been rejected had the voting been free.

6.   On Tuesday, employees briefly commandeered the network, allowing an impromptu interview with Lescure.

7.   She passed the phone to a reporter for an impromptu interview.

8.   Still, in a series of impromptu interviews last week, Manhattan defense lawyers and some judges contended that the lawyering on both sides had at times been mediocre.

9.   The participants have been operating under a strict news blackout, broken only briefly by Clinton himself in an impromptu interview with a New York newspaper on Sunday.

10.   The next day, Seger took her new friend to a local radio station for an impromptu interview with a stunned DJ.