Africans, in particular, saw great hope in the new American president with African roots.
In the circumstances the last thing any government in Europe will want is to be seen to displease the new American president.
President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, a staunch American ally whose relations with Mr Bush grew strained to breaking point, praises the new American president as precise, reasoned and willing to listen, in sharp contrast to his predecessor.
Officials made no secret of Mr Obama's impatience with last year's summit in Prague, at which he had to endure speeches by 27 European leaders who all then vied for a photo-op with the new American president.
The commitment came as Spain's chief criminal investigator Jesus Espigares Mira was elected as the new president of Interpol and American Ronald K. Noble was chosen as the body's secretary-general.
Eric Hollowell, the new president of United American Ventures, disputes the allegations.
As he tried to rebuild the country, the new President Asif Zardari was reluctant to listen to American advice, insisting, for example, on a land-for-peace truce with Taliban militants in the Swat valley (see Pakistan's Mistaken Strategy) that lasted a matter of weeks.
"It would be a tremendous waste of expense, time, and effort for our members to incur all of the harm and costs associated with the ban if this court decides that the ban is illegal, " Chong Sik Le, president of the New York Korean-American Grocers Association, said in court papers filed Friday.
The American president's new show of flexibility gives North Korea little excuse not to attend.
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In just a few short weeks, the new administration of President Barack Obama has managed to weaken the perception of American power and embolden US adversaries throughout the world.
Moreover, his current actions will not only lead to losing status in the United States but also in the developed world, particularly Europe which is siding more and more with Washington, as is demonstrated in the new pro-American foreign policies of French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, and German Chancellor, Angela Merkel.
Most of the leading candidates in the American presidential election are more progressive on climate change, but the new president will not take office until January 2009.
Nonetheless, something intriguing is emerging: the realisation that, in George W. Bush and John McCain, the two most-favoured candidates for New Hampshire, the Republicans are fielding two opposite ideas of what an American president should be like.
The election of Evo Morales as President of Bolivia late in 2005 and the election of Rafael Correa as President of Ecuador late last year have accelerated the formation of a new Latin American axis which might have serious repercussions for the region in general and also for the United States.
American Jobs Act the President proposed three new veterans hiring tax credits that greatly expanded the number of veterans eligible to be hired with tax credits.
But Michele Flournoy, who's the president of the Center for a New American Security, argues that few are considering the long-term impact of longer deployments on the army.
In a paper entitled, Resisting A "Munich in Our Time": Why President Bush Must Reject the New Central American "Peace" Plan, the Center notes a striking historical parallel: The Tela accord is unsettlingly reminiscent of the agreement fifty years ago that abandoned a free people to totalitarian aggression and postponed, rather than prevented, the outbreak of war.
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In particular, Mr. Obama's determination to legitimate, empower and enrich the government of Egypt's new Muslim Brotherhood president Mohamed Morsi adds materially to the danger confronting the Jewish State and American interests.
For two centuries, Georgia struggled to maintain its identity under czarist and then Soviet rule, and since becoming independent 13 years ago, Georgia has pursued perhaps the most pro-American foreign policy of any former Soviet republic, both under former President Eduard Shevardnadze and the new young leader who toppled him in the Rose Revolution of 2003, 37-year-old Mikhail Sakashvili.
"It's breathtaking, " said Michael Stutman, the president of the New York chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.
Squadron, who died in 2001, was a prominent New York lawyer and was also president of the American Jewish Congress.
Never before in American history has a new president had the chance to appoint five Fed governors in a space of 12 months.
Nissen, who is now the interim chair of cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic and president of the American College of Cardiology, has been at the forefront of doing studies for new heart drugs like AstraZeneca 's Crestor and the new "good cholesterol" drugs being developed by Pfizer.
Nissen, who is now the interim chair of cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic and president of the American College of Cardiology, has been at the forefront of doing studies for new heart drugs like AstraZeneca 's (nyse: AZN - news - people ) Crestor and the new "good cholesterol" drugs being developed by Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ).
Mr Khalilzad was a founder member of the now ailing neo-con Project for the New American Century, and signed its 1998 letter that called on President Bill Clinton to topple Saddam Hussein.
"Today the world lost a Christian statesman, a dedicated servant of prisoners and a powerful example of God's ability to transform a life, " said Lamar Vest, president and CEO of the New York-based American Bible Society.
Now, however, Iran has a new president and American policy could be on the point of change though Madeleine Albright, the secretary of state, has urged people not to read too much into the administration's decision to let the deal go ahead.
The new American ambassador in Moscow, Robert Strauss, just this week took President Bush's logic one demeaning step further.
They fervently hope the mainland won't try something precipitous against them before a new American President takes office next January.
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