1.   The senator is known for making facile judgments on current issues.

2.   An associate of Bhakta knew a senator who could be approached to help him obtain a pardon, Bhakta said on Friday in a brief interview.

3.   Anyone who knows the senator also knows he has not been in the forefront of any civil-rights movements.

4.   One of the best parts of owning the Marlins has been getting to really know the senator and spending time with him.

5.   One of the bandits knows a senator, and they arrange to give the stolen money back and to make claims.

6.   The senator is not known as a flashy legislator but as a quick study, to whom other lawmakers sometimes defer on complex issues.

7.   Those who knew the senator, though, feel he was too lost in his own pain that night to have been thinking any such thing.