For a while, Torre, like the patriarch at a family gathering, stood behind the batting cage and waited for old friends to visit.
In the middle of the gathering stood Jacky Sing, a homeless man who seemed hopeful of getting a job, but in the meantime drank a Budweiser and showed off his overgrown toenails.
The gathering stood in stark contrast to the past few months, during which New York lawmakers had stepped up criticism of the White House, questioning whether the president would live up to the commitment he made to them in the Roosevelt Room just days after the Sept. 11 attacks.
To judge by the sounds emerging from the rank & file at the gathering, it stands pretty much where it did.
Smith challenged the computer security industry represented at the gathering to "stand up with Apple in this important case".
At big gatherings, he stands around conversing for a while, but sooner or later seeks out the piano and loses himself in music.
The truth is, New Yorkers need not wait for an annual gathering of stand-up artists to give their funny bones a workout.
Mercury's market value hit $12 billion in September 2000 and, he says, "I had to constantly throw cold water on things".At one employee gathering Landan stood up and said, "If someone here thinks they can just sit and vest on their overpriced options, they won't be here to vest".
The council leader announced the reason for the gathering: Sharon stood accused of having homosexual relations.
Act II opens with a setting of Rukeyser's poem "Easter Eve 1945," which tries to find rays of light in the blackness of war: Whatever world I know shines ritual death, wide under this moon they stand gathering fire, fighting with flame, stand fighting in their graves.
