YOUNG AMERICANS.(The Talk of the Town)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 13-SEP-04

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Like many an overworked, ambitious television producer in this season of around-the-clock political coverage, Andrew Leon puts in long hours at the studio. "Any time they need me to come, I come," he said the other night. "Saturday, I come. Friday, I come. Basically, it's either my house, or my grandparents' house, or my uncle's house, or here. Mostly, I'm here." Leon, a twelve-year-old from Harlem, was readying himself for a live national broadcast of a panel on the Republican National Convention. Leon works as a cameraman and an anchor at the Manhattan Neighborhood Network's Youth Channel. He has a solid build and a gentle voice, and was wearing a blue-and-white athletic jersey, long shorts, and loosened, unvelcroed Air Jordans. He is going into eighth grade, and likes...

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