1.   Cleland is soaking up the attention and clearly enjoying his newfound role as U.S. senator, symbol for the disabled and man about town.

2.   He gave way to a bullpen committee chaired by Tom Gordon, who extended his perfection in his newfound role to six saves in as many opportunities.

3.   I was looking forward to my newfound musical role as a teen idol.

4.   Joking aside, it would be a mistake to underestimate Grant, his friends say, particularly in his newfound role as producer.

5.   The waiflike McLachlan was sen sible and patient, seeming comfort able in her newfound role as boss.

6.   In the CNN interview, he likened his newfound role as a reformer to that of leaders Boris Yeltsin in Russia and Zhu Rongji of China.

7.   Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic has so far held back, insisting on negotations in his newfound role as peacemaker, aimed at ending punitive international sanctions on Yugoslavia.

8.   Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic has so far held back, insisting on negotiations in his newfound role as peacemaker.