and the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts

And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts

and love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues,

And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,

At the age of 20, students were voted into one of the public messes.

Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts

Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts

We feasted and reveled and rutted in muck, Forgetting our peril, forgetting to duck, Forgetting times arrows are sharper than knives.

But, behind all the smiles and banquet toasts, serious issues and perception gaps continue to divide the world s two great powers.

If we're going to deal with political conflict solving of conflicts, if we're going to understand these new groups which are coming from bottom up, supported by technology, which is available to all, we diplomats cannot be sitting back in the banquets believing that we are doing interstate relations.