"Qat is like gasoline in a car," one man said at a recent qat-chewing session here.

"He doesn't know what to do with his energy," his mother, Towana Thomas, said at a session for parents.

"My role is to spread a little glee," she said at a packed session on the global economic outlook.

"The Democratic leadership has turned the people's house into a personal bazaar of horse-trading and wheeling and dealing," he said at a session with reporters last week.

"I want to learn about the computer for me," she said at a recent session.

The party's chief, Gregor Gysi, angered by the draft, said at a televised session of Parliament: "This is unique.

"We're not going to let the ability for us to discuss matters between ourselves to become eroded," the president said this afternoon at a session with reporters.

Prayers would be said for all of them at a grand session that night, but here it was a routine report.

Never before "have we so clearly glimpsed peace on the horizon," the President said at a session of the Angolan People's Assembly.

"Russia today is a different country," said Dmitry A. Medvedev, the powerful first deputy prime minister, at a public session of the forum, which ended Sunday.