11.   Close friends.

12.   Despite, or perhaps because of, the differences in their temperament and leadership styles, the two were close friends.

13.   For reasons that remain a mystery even to close friends, Thomas has chosen a public profile that is strikingly at odds with who he is in private.

14.   For Ms. Fischer and many others still mourning the loss of relatives or close friends, that is not enough.

15.   Gaynor and four of the other men who faced deportation, all close friends, met Wednesday night at an Irish tavern in Manhattan to celebrate with their wives.

16.   Hampton never spoke to the Giants organization about those thoughts, just to close friends, and he has never before spoken publicly about any sort of retirement plans.

17.   He had planned to join the family later during their Paris excursion, according to close friend Lee Wells, a charter member of Justice for All.

18.   Hill and Abrams are second cousins and close friends.

19.   Never much of a self-promoter, Garza delivered the news a couple of weeks ago to me and a few other close friends in his trademark matter-of-fact manner.

20.   Norman and the elder Towns, once close friends themselves, have become bitter political adversaries, a result of disagreements over endorsements.