I interviewed him one afternoon in a bungalow called the Star Hotel, a few minutes from his house, where senior Northern Alliance officials work and live and which also serves as a kind of reception house for Rabbani.
When I noticed grass flying through the air, I looked up to see a boy of 8 or so on the grassy roof of the reception house, swinging a scythe.
We ate in the reception house, in a pantrylike room between the kitchen and the banquet hall.
Men and women clad in bunad, the country's traditional costume that is worn nowadays mainly on Norway's National Day (May 17) and at such events as christenings and confirmations, stood on the veranda of the reception house sipping wine, looking for all the world like 18th-century Scandinavian gentry.
Articles 12 and 13 of the Presidential Decree 220/2007 (Proedriko Diatagma [Presidential Decree] 220/2007), guarantee reception, housing, and maintenance in "adequate" accommodation in Greece.
A woman whose daughter is being married invited several hundred people to a reception at her house in a pleasant western suburb of Jerusalem.
"All right," she told Bradlee on the telephone, in the midst of a reception at her house, with the Post's lawyer counselling caution in her free ear.
At a reception in Clarence House the couple entertained Australians and New Zealanders working in the UK, ahead of the prince's antipodean tour, which begins next week.
Accompanied by Prince Ghazi of Jordan, he spoke to people at the Egyptian Coptic Church centre in Stevenage and the Syriac Orthodox cathedral in west London, before a reception at Clarence House with the Archbishops of Canterbury and Westminster and the Chief Rabbi.
Later at a reception at Clarence House, attended by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Archbishop of Westminster and the Chief Rabbi, Prince Charles said he felt deeply troubled by the plight of Christians.
