HABLA ESPANOL

It's doubtful English will ever become the official language of the United States, given the Obama White House has already set out to speak in another tongue.

In fact, the Obama team on Wednesday saw fit to excerpt leading Spanish-language media coverage of President Obama's first 100 days in office, including an accolade that the White House two weeks ago, for the first time ever, carried out a bilingual press conference in English and Spanish.

Otherwise, Spanish-language media applauded Mr. Obama for his "intense" outreach to Hispanics, who for the first time represent nearly 10 percent of presidential appointments that require Senate confirmation. This compares to 5 percent under President George W. Bush and 4 percent under President Bill Clinton during the same time period.

Mr. Obama so far has 26 Hispanics - Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Colombians and Cubans among them - working at the White House in a variety of senior-level posts. Hispanics make up 14 percent of the U.S. population.

WHO'S THE DADDY?

Hopefully there won't be any shouting, spitting and shoving between agitated guests when TV talk show host Maury Povich returns to his hometown of Washington to take on teen pregnancy.

Actually, Mr. Povich will lead a candid conversation (not affiliated with his show) on teenage pregnancy at the National Press Club on May 5, the eve of the 8th annual National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.

Among other panelists: Ann Shoket, editor in chief of Seventeen Magazine, and teen actress Kristen Alderson of ABC's "One Life to Live."