11.   Al Gore is getting together with Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura at a private dinner Wednesday night at home in Washington.

12.   Both Giuliani and Pataki were invited to a private dinner put on Wednesday night by State Sen. Roy M. Goodman, the Manhattan Republican chairman.

13.   Bush was expected to discuss that subject at a private dinner Thursday night at the home of Archbishop Theodore McCarrick of Washington.

14.   Clinton was expected to touch upon his impending decision with congressional leaders invited to the White House Monday night for a private dinner with senior administration officials.

15.   Dine in, but hire a chef to make a private dinner party for two.

16.   Doleac took Mottola, a sophomore, for a private dinner the night before the Arizona game and reassured him of his abilities.

17.   Early last year, Arianna Huffington invited Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama and several other lawmakers to a private dinner at her Wesley Heights home here.

18.   Frequent attendees were then invited to meet Lenz at private dinners held in lavish restaurants.

19.   Gore had also had Ventura and his wife to his home in Washington last month for a private dinner.

20.   He recalls, for example, private dinners with Aleksei Kosygin, one of the most interesting but least-known Soviet leaders of the Brezhnev era.