1.   And at ballparks these days, I gossip with journalist friends from Japan, trading Piazza quotes for Shinjo quotes.

2.   A journalist friend tells me a story about a colleague who, out of the blue, was diagnosed with cancer and immediately checked into a hospital for treatment.

3.   A French journalist friend, getting the same tip, delayed, and was shut out this year.

4.   But people like Luke bring baggage, in this case his nosy student journalist friend, who gets his neck broken investigating the Skulls.

5.   He had a long, relaxed telephone chat with his journalist friend in Canada, Jeyaraj.

6.   He said he had eight journalist friends.

7.   He was speaking in an aside to a white journalist friend after being asked a silly question by someone else.

8.   I called up a Saudi journalist friend of mine Thursday and told him Downing Street was claiming the attack on Iraq was intended to protect the Arab Gulf.

9.   I asked Surinder Oberoi, my journalist friend, if he thought Malik was telling the truth.

10.   It is not a story I came upon, but one written by a dear journalist friend of mine a couple of decades ago.