On a Saturday morning, generally in April, each year, all members of the Corps gather at the Quadrangle, near their dormitories, and march en masse across campus and down Highway 60 to Texas A&M's Animal Science Teaching, Research & Extension Complex near the east bank of the Brazos River.
And yet like a rugged seafarer refusing to give up on the wreckage of his shipwrecked vessel, Cameron clings on, with no sight as yet of the press corps gathered outside Downing Street for the heartfelt resignation speech.
"Until Rev. Al Sharpton comes home," Mr. Ramirez said to the press corps gathered outside the prison, "until every one of the individuals that has engaged in civil disobedience in the island of Vieques goes home, and until the U.S. Navy stops the bombing of Vieques, we will not be free".
The press corps will gather in droves as usual.
On Wednesday, the main fighters held light training sessions on the floor of the Mandalay Bay arena, so the press corps could gather B-roll footage and specious insights about their health and strategy.
The White House press corps was gathered in the nurses' classroom at the other end of Parkland Hospital, waiting for word on Kennedy's condition.
Melvin pointed out that members of the White House press corps, though gathered for an occasion no more substantial than the marshmallows atop a sweet-potato casserole, were bursting with urgent questions.
It was my turn to be told, "You are out of business!" My friends in the press corps kindly gathered up furniture and supplies from the rabbit-warren-like back room of the press area — a desk, a chair, an inbox and an outbox, along with an assortment of pens and other junk — placed them on the White House lawn, appended price tags, and held a "going-out-of-business sale" for me.
One of the biggest draws is outside the town limits, where an impromptu corps of artillery men gather to take turns unleashing period-accurate (though not necessarily precision-aimed) cannon fire at a hill with a giant bull's-eye painted on it.
When he was finished speaking, Mr. Romney took a half-dozen questions from the largely local, largely Hispanic press corps that had gathered for his arrival.
He served in the US army signal corps in postwar Germany, where he helped gather Nazi documents, and then attended university in Washington DC and New York City.
