Laclos's first novel, Dangerous Liaisons caused an immediate sensation.
The tumult that the liaison was causing both families prompted Mr. Ensign, a two-term Republican, to try to contain the damage and find a landing spot for Mr. Hampton.
On Saturday, Bo confessed to having been unfaithful to his wife, Gu Kailai (Party insiders have long alleged that he has had numerous liaisons), which caused her to decamp to England in 2000, along with their adolescent son, Bo Guagua, as an act of retribution.
Still, even as a great fan of sex, I cannot imagine any liaison that would cause to miss not just Minneapolis, but St . Paultoo.
She set a championship record in her semifinal heat of the 50-meter freestyle, causing Ian Hanson, the Australian team's media liaison, to quip, "Maybe they should run into each other more often, because they both swam so well".
In a terse telephone message to the North-South liaison office at the truce village of Panmunjom, a Northern official said only that "a number of circumstances" were responsible for causing a "delay" in the talks, South Korean officials said.
A liaison with his beloved Cunégonde causes him to be exiled, and soon afterward the principality is sacked by the Bulgars, who rape Cunégonde and leave Pangloss for dead.
Liaisons have many responsibilities.
The distinction between foreign service and home service personnel has sometimes caused difficulty because of inadequate liaison between overseas representatives and the makers of foreign policy at home.
So could the liaison committee do better?
