21.   Allen, two years younger than Franks, knew him from their time together on the football team.

22.   But mostly they knew her from the neighborhood, where she liked to sweep the sidewalk and shovel snow in the winter.

23.   But you would not know it from watching Wall Street.

24.   Even I had known it from my cradle, having read it in a Baltimore Sun article by Neil A. Grauer five weeks ago.

25.   From experience they knew that suffering parents were looking for any sign of understanding.

26.   Gary Sheffield and Devon White also played with Counsell in Florida and Eric Young and outfielder Trenidad Hubbard know him from their Colorado Rockies days.

27.   Han Weicheng has known them from the time they were taken into the orphanage, where he worked.

28.   He is gracious, appreciative . . . and tells me the mother of one of his bodyguards knows me from New York.

29.   He continued to struggle with the pressures of playing in his home town, saying yes to every old crony who knew him from way back when.

30.   He also knew them from the increasing number of complaints he had been hearing about them over the last year.