"Equality," she mused at a recent breakfast fund-raiser in Manhattan.

Also Monday, at a breakfast fund-raiser in Juno Beach, Fla., Mr. Kerry said he had a "100 percent record of sustaining the special relationship and friendship with Israel."

SENATOR JOHN KERRY Remarks yesterday at a breakfast fund-raiser in Manhattan: "Values are not words.

At a breakfast fund-raiser here this morning, he cited the decision not to destroy Serbian positions when Capt. Scott F. O'Grady was rescued from hostile Bosnian territory last week.

Just hours after her breakfast fund-raiser, Ms. Pirro was attacked by the head of Naral Pro-Choice New York, the abortion rights group, which endorsed Mr. Cuomo yesterday.

Mrs. Clinton first challenged the mayor on the issue yesterday in a speech to about 1,000 people at a breakfast fund-raiser for her Senate campaign at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Midtown.

The event, a breakfast fund-raiser, attracted just the sort of uptown crowd one might expect to see any day at Bergdorf Goodman - except that it took place at Barneys New York.

Mr. Bush began the day with a breakfast fund-raiser for Bill Simon Jr., the struggling candidate for governor in California whose family investment firm faces a $78 million civil court judgment for defrauding a partner.

On Sunday, Mr. Rice finally managed to corral the departing mayor, persuading him to speak at a breakfast fund-raiser for about 200 people at the Robert Treat Hotel downtown.

"I think you have great unity," said Mr. Schundler, after a breakfast fund-raiser, which netted more than $150,000 for Mr. Kean.