"There is only one way we can win these elections, and I mean it," Mr. Orban told a smaller, lunchtime crowd in the small town of Kalosca, 90 miles south of Budapest, on a swing through rural areas this week.
The pro-China activist group, the Action Committee for Defending the Diaoyu Islands, held a small protest at lunchtime on Wednesday near the base of Exchange Square, the downtown Hong Kong office complex that houses the Japanese Consulate, the stock exchange and many businesses.
Spoleto was the kind of place where Luchino Visconti showed up in a Rolls-Royce, Ezra Pound gave poetry readings, Tennessee Williams opened a new play, Henry Moore designed opera sets, and a young Yo-Yo Ma serenaded small crowds at lunchtime.
The music begins on some of the smaller stages at lunchtime, but the festival starts in earnest on Friday, when the likes of Lily Allen, Paolo Nutini and Blondie are on the bill.
As scandals go, this was, like the Vice-President's lunchtime refreshment, small beer.
The sidewalk across from the building had been reopened that morning, and by lunchtime, a small crowd gathered to watch the creation of a vacant lot.
At this strip-mall shop, which seats 30 (with extra seating outdoors when the weather permits) and is packed at lunchtime, a small note politely asks customers to refrain from talking on their phones while placing orders at the counter.
Especially popular with local lawyers at lunchtime, this small taverna's excellent menu includes such classic Cretan dishes as barley rusks topped with tomatoes and mizithra cheese and peppery sautéed wild greens.
Even the lunchtime sandwiches and small plates are imaginative.
The small group that gathered at lunchtime inside a strip-mall storefront in Skokie had not come to eat.
