21.   Although friends say Ms. Hanover has accepted the compromises in her professional life, they say she has tried hard to keep a balance in her marriage.

22.   Although friends say that Mackovic privately can be engaging -- even funny -- publicly he is not a reach-out-and-touch-you guy.

23.   Although friends say she is more politically in tune with Clinton than North, Seligman keeps her politics private.

24.   Although private, friends said, he always took time to call when a relative was ailing or advice was needed.

25.   Although Martorano was as tough as he was smart, friends say he was never a bully.

26.   Although reaching the half-century mark is a traumatic passage for many people, Mrs. Clinton is little given to introspection or self doubt, her friends say.

27.   An Israeli friend said his sister became worried after she figured out that her son was on a mission deep inside Lebanon.

28.   Ancona had taken heroin in the past, friends said, but he favored cocaine and alcohol.

29.   And again and again, friends say Gore is behaving exactly the way they would have expected him to under these circumstances.

30.   An angling friend of mine says the point of native vs. wild is silly.