The museum, which opened in the spring, has almost three acres of exhibition space, a media library, auditorium, classrooms and a rather good restaurant.
Noting the large throng of news media in the auditorium, Ryan said, "With all the cameras, I was looking for our new president back there".
"We have slaved and struggled for two years," Domenech told the media in an auditorium under the Stade de France after the game.
Reading rooms, archives, galleries, media labs, an auditorium, a theater and a round-the-clock media lounge would be housed behind a double glass wall, with horizontal louvers sandwiched between the window panels to control the amount of light reaching the interior.
After playing for the first time on the tournament's main court, Rus was brought to a news conference in the media center's largest auditorium, carrying a bagged lunch and a broad smile.
It was a familiar premise probed at a symposium on the news media last week in Cubberley Auditorium: that the printed newspaper is seeing its relevance erode as more people turn to an online world by desktop or laptop filled with free content and alternative providers such as bloggers and other so-called citizen journalists.
That evening representatives from a small (less that 100 student) high school that was housed in a bank building without proper classrooms or cafeteria, a gym, auditorium or media center, pleaded for over an hour to rescind what they believed to be a planning recommendation to close their school.
In the basement, a 200-seat auditorium and a media lounge.
Proposed improvements include 12 more classrooms, an expanded library and media center, a 600-seat auditorium, redesigned bathrooms, new music and art classrooms and more computer classroom space.
The glitzy launch opened the final day of the Windows 2000 trade show in San Francisco, and drew some 3,000 attendees and media types to a downtown auditorium.
