And the team usually has bonding sessions during Camp Riley, like a team dinner and a team pool tournament.

Sabbata was left out of the bonding sessions now.

Then again, there is no reason in principle that adoptive parents couldn't take Pitocin once a day for synthetic bonding sessions.

We would end the era of bucket-and-spade holidays in style, with the mother-and-daughter bonding session of all time.

During our regular male bonding sessions, Jake, Greenie or I might say, "Had a good spot today . . . Grace Paley on Bleecker."

This goes beyond the bonding sessions the Knicks have been holding after home games this past month, when they huddle around their team logo at center court.

And while the prince does lose his real estate and fall victim to dirty tricks, the script is indeed free of profanity, churlish invective and smoke-wreathed male bonding sessions.

They had a private bonding session much earlier in the morning, before cameras, pens and notepads were there.

In New York last February, a similar impromptu bonding session occurred at the Park Avenue office of Dr. Alan Matarasso, a plastic surgeon.

"We had a nutritionist who would come in with pincers and measure your skin every week, and we would have a weigh-in, all the P.O.W.'s, which was a competitive bonding session to say the least."