Established in 1864 as a place for local sailors to receive religious instruction and gather away from the pubs, it is now a maritime museum with long tables and reading chairs.
Mr. Flowers said the Olympics committee was "really close" to satisfying most of the attorney general's requests, many of them involving the deployment of additional security officers to areas where large numbers of people would gather away from the sports arenas.
We were at Wiish Stadium, near the city's corniche, where families gathered, jumping away from waves as they broke over the seawall.
Roughly a thousand people, many of them from out of town, gathered three blocks away, in front of the local police headquarters, as part of a series of actions organized under the banner of "Ferguson October".
A swarm of photographers gathered — a block away to capture the arrival of Michele Bachmann.
On Monday, Glover stepped away, gathered himself, then converted the putt for par.
Teenagers in a summer camp from New Hope Baptist Church in Mayo, Fla., about 75 miles away, gathered around it and bowed their heads in prayer.
At the home of Elaine Babcock, the elder Mr. Palmer's sister, about a dozen relatives and friends had gathered Wednesday, shooing away reporters.
So as he neared the basket, Sprewell, his most resounding slam of the season seemingly just a blink away, gathered himself and prepared to go into the right-handed windup that would end in a thunderous tomahawk dunk.
Other possible options seem no more likely to bring peace: the prime minister's resignation, a new election or a violent showdown in the streets between the antigovernment protesters and a new, threatening mobilization of government supporters who have gathered not far away.
