1.   He also praised an offer from Mubarak to broker a meeting between Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, and Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister.

2.   Meanwhile, representatives from the Cuban American National Foundation said Wednesday morning that they were trying to broker a meeting in Washington.

3.   The place to broker a meeting of the minds was behind closed doors.

4.   The school tried bringing the two girls together for a counseling session, and tried unsuccessfully to broker a meeting of the parents, but the trouble continued.

5.   Armato, who flew to New York earlier this month and brokered a meeting between Stern and Hunter, did not return several phone messages.

6.   Despite the latest violence, U.S. envoy Anthony Zinni brokers a meeting between top Israeli and Palestinian security officials.

7.   Fischer is attempting to broker a meeting between the Palestinian leader and the Israeli foreign minister to help end nearly a year of Mideast violence.

8.   The meeting was brokered by Syria, which has recently sought to mediate between Iran and its Arab neighbors.

9.   The New York meeting was apparently brokered by Holbrooke in his meetings with Papandreou and Gligorov.

10.   The peace force and U.N. police monitors brokered a meeting between Muslim and Bosnian Serb police chiefs Saturday to decide who should police and control the villages.