The problem is, I love food: the smell, the taste, the experience of sitting down to a three-hour dinner with a bottle of cabernet and close friends.

Newman spoke enthusiastically of their subsequent visit to South Africa, and a three-hour dinner with Nelson Mandela.

He recorded the defendants, too, at their homes and at lavish three-hour dinners at restaurants like Il Mulino in the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace.

The first was to let Korea fail and "try to save the rest of the world," as one of those who was at the three-hour dinner puts it.

These included a three-hour dinner on August 28 2002, just months after Milly disappeared in March and before her body was found on September 18.

"I don't want to view being Governor as playing a role," Mr. Pataki insisted, near the end of a three-hour dinner recently with reporters in this city just north of Albany.

Moorad and an associate met Thursday with Tom Hicks, the Rangers' owner, and General Manager John Hart for a three-hour dinner.

After a three-hour dinner last night with Goodenow, Ziegler refused to acknowledge that the proposal he was shown was a substantially new offer.

Sometimes a voice is raised to emphasize a point, but the discussion generally continues in easy Southern tones during the two-hour gabfest and the three-hour dinner that follows.

On the last evening, between nibbling on escargot and duck at a three-hour dinner, each student was allowed to sip a "thimbleful" of wine.