111.   But here, on a shady terrace overlooking the roaring Zambezi River, more than half the tables are empty.

112.   But for the swelling coalition of countries that brought Mobutu down, the tables were merely being turned on a man who had spent his career playing kingmaker.

113.   But now the tables are set for dinner.

114.   But now when the tide is out, the table is dirty.

115.   But surely this means tables can be in many places at once.

116.   But the kitchen table is more than a prop for Gramm.

117.   But you are reminded when it signals your table is ready with a gentle vibration.

118.   By dessert, the table was deep in a discussion of the photographer Jacques-Henri Lartigue, until Anderson ran out of gas.

119.   By midafternoon, every card table was busy and the slots were clinking and clanking like a high school band practice.

120.   Clinton and his men rightly see that, under these conditions, a triangular negotiating table is no place for them to be.