The family gathered at the dinner table, same as always, minus one.
THE worldly and the clever gathered at the dinner parties that William F. Buckley Jr. and his wife, Pat, gave in their Park Avenue maisonette.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan made the announcement on Sunday to representatives of more than 150 Christian and Jewish trusts gathered at a dinner he hosted in Istanbul to break the day's Ramadan fast.
Though both the Bush administration and the Iraq war remain deeply unpopular among New Yorkers, those elected officials and party activists gathered at the dinner seemed grateful for Mr. Cheney's presence.
But it seemed fitting that the more than 1,000 people who gathered at a dinner last week to honor the memory of Mr. Lee, a man known for urging the community to speak up for its rights, made so much noise.
That fear was palpable last Tuesday evening in the soaring Art Deco ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria, where wealthy patrons gathered at a dinner for the National September 11 Memorial, the season's first big charity gala, were agape at Mr. de Blasio's ascent.
Looking around at the crowd gathered at the embassy dinner to toast Mr. Grange, Mr. Pandiscio wondered at all the effort.
On May 19th 100 prominent figures with close ties to the Democratic Party sent a letter to the Democratic presidential candidates urging them not to criticise the road map.That still leaves those more conservative Jews of the sort gathered at the AEI dinner.
It has been more than a year since her father, Voeuth Vann, died from skin cancer, yet night after night, in keeping with Buddhist tradition, Julie, her mother and her little sister gather at the dinner table and actively include their father in the meal.
As they gather at the dinner table to torture their victims, they invoke traditional symbols of community, and force the viewer to ask whether such a fundamental unit of connection is the antidote to or the agent of violence.
