31.   Baker said his friends told him last week that they were skipping the tradition this past Sunday because of their Puerto Vallarta trip.

32.   Barnicle says he used jokes friends told him or he found on the Internet,

33.   Better start making plans for Japan, skating friends told the Halliseys.

34.   -- Details are sketchy, but a friend told me that Derrick Thomas and Larry Smith are putting together an exercise video.

35.   ----- Last week, a friend told me she had an appointment to see an intuitive healer.

36.   -- Tuesday, a friend told me the Buffalo Bills would return to the Super Bowl.

37.   A Cuban friend tells me the entire country could be bought for a couple of million pairs of Levis.

38.   A family friend told reporters on Wednesday in Squaw Valley, Calif., that there was a letter.

39.   A friend of Tolbert told the Associated Press that the man had talked Wednesday about killing Koon, and had been drinking before the incident Thanksgiving Day.

40.   A friend told Dick Flatt on Saturday that Sen. Phil Gramm might not seek re-election next year.