Just after the referendum, I had a brief private exchange with Cameron.
Eyebrows were raised when an American reporter was accorded a brief private interview with the princess.
When the talks ended, the Times correspondent and columnist James Reston got to the President for a brief private conversation.
In a brief private ceremony in the Oval Office, President Bush on Tuesday signed into law legislation allowing creation of a National Museum of African-American History asd Culture as part of the Smithsonian Institution.
In May, Mr. Obama also had a brief, private meeting with the leader of a mosque in Dearborn, Mich., home to the country's largest concentration of Arab-Americans.
At a brief private meeting, Mr. Bush reportedly assured Mr. Shamir that the Reagan Administration looked forward to working with him and that the Administration was committed to pressing the Soviet Union to allow Jews to emigrate.
During the brief private times among combat flights, Mr. Shepard, then a reporter with WJW-TV, the CBS affiliate in Cleveland, provided the station with commentary from the front lines.
Pulling Mr. Kharazi away for a brief private conversation during a speech and dinner last Wednesday at the Century Club in New York, Mr. Horton said, he had been told the Jews would be granted a new trial.
An intelligence and security committee that goes into brief private session, only to emerge blinking into the daylight with protestations of apparent fealty to the security services, is a poor substitute for grown-up scrutiny.
Rabbi Gluck, 56, like the couples he marries, is a member of the Satmar Hasidim, and the brief private ceremonies he performs are done so at the Congress's offices in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
