Conference was a cockpit of strong views, as you might expect from a gathering that included Conor Cruise O'Brien, John Cole, Colin Legum, Neal Ascherson, Mary Holland, Tony Howard and Katharine Whitehorn.
On Friday, the president played golf — his fourth round so far this trip — and he spent a quiet New Year's Eve at home, a gathering that included a talent show with family and friends, an annual Obama tradition.
Hollande told a gathering that included several government ministers and Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris: "I hoped to opening this building in less terrible circumstances … we do so with a combination of drama and pride".
In 1966 he helped organize a White House conference on civil rights, a gathering that included the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Thurgood Marshalll, who was then the solicitor general but would become America's first black Supreme Court justice a year later; and representatives of almost every major civil rights group in the country.
"We feel deep regret, and we offer our sincere feelings of condolence to those who suffered and their families," Mr. Kan told a gathering that included Emperor Akihito and families of some of the three million Japanese soldiers and civilians who also died in the war.
The multiple-sport athleticism of Bo Jackson was brilliantly exploited with Nike's "You Don't Know Diddley" (a gathering that included Wayne Gretzky, Kirk Gibson, Michael Jordan, John McEnroe and the rock 'n' roll Bo, Diddley), and in another, when more than a dozen versions of Bo, each in the regalia of different sports, crowded the screen.
An uncomfortable murmur spread through a press gathering that included a Japanese journalist.
In 1470 a rebellion shook Q'umarkaj during a great celebration that saw a large gathering that included representatives of all the most important highland peoples.
He shared his hope to be a judge someday with a small gathering that included two black teenagers whom, she was later told by Mrs. Zimmerman, George was mentoring.
That fun continued at an after-party that saw Craig and Charlie perform a selection of their hits for a select gathering that included Andrew Scott of Sherlock fame.
