Together, Roasting.

The day after Senators Barack Obama and John McCain face off Wednesday at Hofstra University on Long Island for their final debate, they again share a stage -- and a microphone -- in New York, this time for a cause that has nothing to do with their presidential campaigns. ''It is, generally speaking, the last time they get together before the election,'' said Alfred E. Smith IV, the M.C. of the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, a charity roast run by the Archdiocese of New York to raise money for underprivileged children. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]