It's kind of a tragic class in China," Wang says, speaking over dinner recently at a dumpling restaurant in Beijing.
One evening last week he spoke over after-dinner drinks to a few reporters about the frustrations of command in Afghanistan.
In July of last year, Daleiden, who casts himself as a "citizen journalist," released the first part in a series of hidden camera web videos called "Human Capital," in which a high-ranking doctor working for Planned Parenthood spoke casually over dinner about the transfer of fetal tissue.
He was speaking over a dinner of bacon and pineapple pizza, jet-lagged after having flown into New York at 5 that morning for "Vietgone" rehearsal.
Ms. Huffman, speaking over a dinner of shrimp salad last month before the festival's first performance of 2013, said that the critical part of regaining trust has been Intiman's new "pay as you go" business model.
Yet during their three-month orientation, in a village called Mahobong, their contact chiefly consisted of studying Sesotho, Lesotho's language, and speaking it over dinner or on breaks.
Better yet, listen over dinner.
The women speak over each other, and dinner orders get folded into their conversations.
"I'm sorry, Mr. President, but that's not a policy, it's a dinner party," Mr. Romney said, speaking over enthusiastic applause from the conservative activists.
He became withdrawn and silent, and no longer spoke to his wife over dinner.
