In a week when an estimated 750,000 visitorshave descended on the nation's Capitol, one can beassured that the parties won't end with theofficial galas. On top of the countless "un-balls"held in the private homes of starving freelancewriters, advocacy groups, lobbyists andcorporations are out in storm.

Harvard Social Studies Lecturer Martin H.Peretz also hosted a much talked about affair forGore, his former social studies tutee. Among otheralumni mingling at the Warner Building were DillonProfessor of International Affairs Joseph S. NyeJr. and cellist Yo-Yo Ma '76, who performed withWynton Marsalis.

The president-elect arrived in town on Sunday,after traveling from Thomas Jefferson's Monticellohome to the Abraham Lincoln Memorial--stopping forchurch services and to ring a replica of theLiberty Bell after crossing the Potomac.

In an appearance at Howard University Monday,Clinton joined a program in remembrance of theslain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.,including King's Widow, Coretta Scott King, andhis son, Martin Luther King III.

"I know that God did not drop me on a mountaintop," Clinton said. "I was born in the valley andlifted to this office on the hopes and dreams ofpeople in the valleys all across this country."

This story was written with dispatches fromthe Associated Press.