1.   At a news briefing held after the raid, however, Brig. -Gen.

2.   And Sergei Fedorov of Russia, who has no NHL team but will play in the Olympics for his country, held a one-man news briefing.

3.   Angry residents stormed a news briefing held by Walkerton Mayor David Thomson and accused public officials of negligence.

4.   Armed with amateur videotapes and photographs taken during the chaos, politicians have held news briefings to blame the other side for the violence.

5.   At a news briefing Friday, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld downplayed speculation that bin Laden was among the men, and said the Pentagon had no indications either way.

6.   At a news briefing in Washington, a group of business leaders and scientists weighed in with eleventh-hour criticism of both the test and the entire plan.

7.   At a news briefing, the organizers seemed exhilarated by the concert, praising the people who came and how they had behaved.

8.   Asked at his news briefing whether he was reconsidering the deal, Bloomberg confirmed that his administration was talking with museum officials about many problems the move would entail.

9.   At a Pentagon news briefing, Rumsfeld noted the difficulty in changing a bureaucracy as large as the Department of Defense.

10.   At her weekly news briefing on Thursday morning, Ms. Reno declined to say what the department might do.