1.   A huge crowd gathered to hear Mandela speak.

2.   Friends and family gathered to hear tributes to Richard Miles.

3.   And last week, young Clinton went to Texas and fell in love with all the millionaires who had gathered to hear him talk.

4.   And they had gathered to hear a talk by a Belgrade pathologist, Dr. Zoran Stankovic.

5.   But in the chamber itself, the men and women gathered to hear Starr and to rule on his findings seemed brittle in the face of their burden.

6.   Envious colleagues, fawning administrators and eager students gather to hear his account.

7.   For devout film lovers, the reasons people congregate to darkened theaters are not all that different from the reasons congregations gather to hear a moving sermon.

8.   Hundreds of people, knowing that state Republicans have urged him to not seek a second term, gathered to hear his decision.

9.   In Boston, thousands gathered to hear Patricia Ireland, president of the National Organization for Women, and others call for a renewed effort to preserve abortion rights.