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STRIKING SEQUEL After losing her primary, Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney--who tried to rebuild her reputation after smacking a cop on Capitol Hill--blames "the press in this room tonight" for physically hurting her mother and her staff but leaves it an open question as to who's at fault for her sing-along that evening with pop singer Pink's Dear Mr. President...
...stays parked tonight, but Brian Duggan says most cowboys take that particular ride eventually. Duggan, 27-who didn't ride his bull but didn't need first aid either-has had a broken arm, leg, jaw and eye socket, and a couple of busted knees. "We're pretty tough-bred people that do this," he says...
...What separates bull riding from many other sports is fear, says Glen Young, who runs events for Professional Bull Riding Australia: "You're in a ring with an animal that weighs a ton and wants to kill you." The wages of fear in Australia are modest. Tonight's winner will collect $2,800 and a DVD player; the national champion, if he has a good year, can earn $40,000. But he'll also get a shot at November's world championship in Las Vegas, worth seven million American bucks...
...what's the key to success in bull riding? "Have fun," says Duggan-and he's not joking. His cousin Anthony Everingham, 27, who did ride a bull tonight, agrees: "You've got to be switched on, get your mind thinking right, forget about the pain and the danger, and relax." If you can do that, "the rush is amazing," says Duggan, who, like Everingham, lives near Rocky and started riding poddy calves at 13. "The more you do it, the more you want to come back and back." It's as much a mental game as a physical...
...newsman BOB WOODRUFF is also making strides, after suffering serious head and upper-body injuries from a roadside bomb in Iraq in January. The former co-anchor of the network's World News Tonight, who continues to spend time in cognitive rehab, participates in morning editorial calls, and last month recorded a voice-over for a rebroadcast of a Nightline report about North Korea that he worked on last year. "He's doing great," says an ABC News spokeswoman. "He is putting his efforts toward coming back to work...