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The road to Samashki may have been Fred Cuny's road to death for the 'great friend of the Chechen people.'

While delegates boarded buses toward their last big parties, and cleanup crews began to swarm around tem, Gina Payne-Scott and Cesar Barza bid a fond farewell to Chicago's United Center and the 1996 Democratic national convention.

Arizona delegate Roy Dunton watches with delight the freefall of thousands of balloons from the ceiling of the San Diego Convention Center at the rousing conclusion of the Republican National Convention.

Stetson-headed Arizona delegate Michael Brewer looms above Ohioans of a different sartorial persuasion while all listen to Bob Dole's acceptance speech on the final night of the Republican National Convention.

Meeting the encouraging gaze of hi patient conductor, ten-year-old Chicagoan Robert Pippin reaches for the notes he needs to finish his solo during the gospel opening of the DNC's final session.

While journalists and conventioneers listened raptly to actor Edward James Olmos' address to the Democratic National Convention, the text of his riveting speech unscrolled upon a teleprompter above them.

Arkansas delegates Randy Minton and Anita Wonder wear 'Let Pat Speak' stickers over their mouths to silently express their displeasure that their candidate, Pat Buchanan, was not allowed to address the Republican Convention.

Whether trading confidences or trying simply to remark on the passing parade, the earsplitting din inside the San Diego Convention Center made being up-close and personal the single conversational mode.

Convention delegates Helen Romero Shaw, right, and Nina Banuelos wave an overlarge American flag in whooshing counterpoint to the thunderous applause greeting speaker Hillary Clinton.

As security teams work the floor below, candidate Bob Dole's electronic image speaks to the Republican faithful gathered at the San Diego Convention Center.