To the pilot of a deep sea submersible, upon finding out what would happen if the craft sprung a leak while submerged. I'll trust you to make sure that doesn't happen.

As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.

And now the sequence of events in no particular order.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

One finds oneself saying: 'I know the right question, but ... this is not exactly the right time to ask it.'

We may see Michael Jackson's baby before we know the final outcome of this race for the House of Representatives tonight.

On Capitol Hill, the Republican-controlled House voted mostly along party lines tonight to pass President Bush's federal budget blueprint. This includes his big tax cut plan, partly bankrolled, critics say, through cuts in many federal aid programs for children and education.