It's her senior banquet tonight.
Later, attendees drifted to the hotel bar, where they waited to hear Condoleezza Rice speak at a banquet that evening.
"We don't want anything to interfere with Hofstra's basketball banquet tonight," Frank McLaughlin, Fordham's athletic director, said in a phone interview Wednesday.
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee of India said in a speech at a banquet tonight that India and China had agreed to cooperate against terrorism.
At a Sicilian banquet last night, the Di Fiores got their first look at the family's 35-page cookbook, courtesy of a cousin in Utah, whose task it was to collect and compile recipes from relatives across the country.
Ricky Martin, who accepted the academy's Person of the Year Award at a banquet last night, recalled the eight months in 1990 when he lived in Long Island City after five hectic years in the boy band Menudo.
"We keep being told this is the biggest security operation of all time and it seems to me to beggar belief that we could get to a situation, as we did last night, where our journalist was detailed with serving breakfast on the presidential floor this morning and at the state banquet tonight," he said.
After last week's traumatizing Red Wedding episode of HBO's "Game of Thrones," in which several of our favorite characters were sliced up in a banquet hall, last night's season finale — excepting the ongoing tale of Theon Greyjoy, whose penis was being messengered across the country while the rest of him watched a sadist eat sausages — was fairly relaxing.
Mr. Gore has remained largely invisible, communicating to a waiting nation only through distant images: playing touch football with his family on Friday, attending his son's football banquet Friday night, going to the movies with the Liebermans on Saturday night and going to church with his wife and all four of their children this morning.
The official announcement was delayed because Pecora wanted to tell his team before Hofstra's banquet Wednesday night.
