11.   Speaking French can be useful on holiday, can open up new friendships and may eventually help you in your work when you leave school.

12.   As it turned out, it was a sometimes messy process that left both bruised feelings and new friendships in its wake.

13.   As President Bush pursues his new friendship with Putin, he should not be shy about raising free-press issues with the Russian leader.

14.   As she begins a new friendship with her old boyfriend, this fantasy of another existence flourishes.

15.   As with the new open friendship with Jordan, most Israelis want relations with Morocco, whose king, Hassan II, is seen here as a benign monarch.

16.   Besides the cultural ties and new friendships, many city leaders hope that these Olympic contacts will lead to more business later on.

17.   A new friendship treaty, Russia says, could restore visa-free travel, though at what price is unclear.

18.   But Esiason, who thinks of himself as a sort of team den father from his perspective as quarterback, has nurtured their new friendship.