11.   Colebrook residents say he had other brushes with the law, including a time when he tried to avoid arrest by firing a gun in the air.

12.   During his tenure in Albany, Finnegan had brief brushes with ethical issues, like accepting a costly trip to the Super Bowl from a state senator.

13.   During that trip, the UW players had a brush with history.

14.   Evangelical Christians have also had a brush with the dark side of their shepherds.

15.   He actually thought he was being conned when he first had a brush with the Internet.

16.   He also had a few brushes with the law, and there have been reports of money being offered to him by CBA and European teams.

17.   He had brushes with the law for minor crimes but was never on an international watchlist, despite his contacts with extremists and strange behavior at airports.

18.   He is the proprietor of the popular Dynasty restaurant in Chinatown, and has had previous brushes with what my Republican friends like to call burdensome government regulations.

19.   He lost the hearing in one of his ears while covering a firefight in Burma, and had a brush with death from a landmine in Khmer Rouge territory.

20.   He, too, has had his brushes with trouble, as the record shows.