11.   Convention planners hope to inject more zest into the event by mandating shorter speeches and sprinkling sessions with videotaped presentations of ordinary citizens from across the nation.

12.   Convention planners are very worried that their real Americans might get rattled.

13.   Convention planners also expect Hillary Rodham Clinton to address the convention.

14.   Convention planners are doing their part as well.

15.   Convention planners at first hoped protesters would remain confined within the official demonstration site.

16.   Convention planners want those screens to function like Trojan television sets.

17.   Convention planners, however, want to play down the issue.

18.   Convention planners are monitoring the situation and voice hope there will be no problems.

19.   Convention planners even anticipated TV commercial breaks and did their best to schedule important business around the commercials.

20.   Convention planners on Friday announced the assignments, which they say was guided by logistics not politics.