He is known to be so fond of parties that his entourage once took to calling him "the Holiday Man," and a few years back, soon after selling out of the Siberian mine Norilsk Nickel at the top of the market, he gleefully rented the Aurora battleship in St . Petersburgfor a party for bankers, its decks crowded with head-spinning models.
Arriving at the clubhouse, a massive lodge crowded with bison heads and stained-glass light fixtures, Ban tapped curiously on the walls.
Mr. Mugabe, whose re-election in a June runoff after 28 years in power was widely seen as a sham, took his place this morning on a dais crowded with other heads of state, but he did not receive his usual adulatory welcome.
The road was crowded with pilgrims heading to Karbala, witnesses said.
Eventually he found a ride on the back of a pickup truck already crowded with refugees heading toward the border.
Petersburg flight crowded with passengers heading home to celebrate the Russian Orthodox Christmas, which is Jan . 7 and who — as they pass bottles of brandy among them — have turned this three-hour flight into a rollicking, airborne B.Y.O.B. party.
The subway car was already crowded with silent commuters, heading north, seemingly insulated from the indignities of high school.
The buses, free for now, are crowded with Lower East Side residents headed north to find power for their phones, a McDonald 's a supermarket.
The train station in nearby Hefei, the capital of Anhui province, is always crowded with young villagers heading toward the coast.
SATURDAY afternoon and Tetovo's streets are crowded with shoppers, mostly head-scarved women, buying everything from bananas to children's bicycles; its cafés are filled with young Albanian men in smart leather jackets.
In midday, on West 58th Street, which was crowded with office workers heading to lunch, a man got out of car, walked up behind another man who appeared absorbed reading his smartphone, and shot him in the back of the head.
