1.   An opening salvo in the Judiciary Committee meeting came when Democrats requested that the gathering be held in public and not under the cloak of secrecy.

2.   An opening salvo in the Judiciary Committee meeting came when Democrats asked that the gathering be held in public and not under the cloak of secrecy.

3.   Arafat has held such gatherings before, and he defended the plan Sunday as necessary to maintain dialogue among all Palestinians, even those who are his rivals.

4.   Besides Guilderland, two other gatherings are held in the Northeast, one on a farm in western New York and another on a farm in Milford, N.H.

5.   For most of the modern period, the gathering was held in Austin and in and around the old Grand Army of the Republic Hall there.

6.   Goldberg had brunch Sunday morning at a Thai restaurant where the Berkeley chapter of the Cypherpunks, an informal group of computer cryptographers, was holding its weekly gathering.

7.   It boasts a huge kitchen, where the McVeys hold special gatherings for customers and locals.

8.   It is only fitting that the gathering be held here.

9.   It is the first time such a gathering has been held outside Asia.

10.   Officials at Penn Valley Community College, on whose midtown campus the gathering will be held, have had the gymnasium freshly painted for the occasion.