Paul resumed his oration, snacking on candy at the dinner hour while continuing to speak.

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In short, from now on, you might have to fend off even more phone calls at the dinner hour from brokers flogging illiquid "investments" that no sane person should touch.

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Arriving at the height of the surge, Mr. Obama was supposed to visit American troops at the Bagram base, an hour's drive north of Kabul, and then to discuss the war over dinner with Mr. Karzai in the presidential palace.

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He generally rises at 10:20 a.m. and tends to fast through the workday, taking his sole meal at dinner, after a half-hour power nap in his office lair, an 8-by-10 room with nothing but a scribble-filled whiteboard, purple couch, two orange earplugs and an inhaler.

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One person who contacted the commission complained of a 17-hour gap between serving dinner at 16:30 GMT and breakfast at 10:00 GMT.

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The one problem with Montagna was that it was too good, too special occasion, and they found that guests, many staying for a week at a time, would only go for the multi-course, multi-hour dinner experience once.

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Similarly, if invited for dinner at 9pm, showing up half an hour late is fine, unless the host specifically requests punctuality (in which case arrive around ten past).

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He got up at two or three in the morning to write, and wrote through his lunch hour and after dinner.

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With the exception of a one-hour dinner break, the lawmakers spent the remainder of Saturday in tense discussions, at times in several groups, with a few scuttling from one group to the other.

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