People found the new leaders to be a welcome change from the older ones.
We think the new leaders fully understand these challenges and will take steps to alleviate them.
For one thing, the new leaders have given themselves no more than two years.
Politically radical, the new leaders, with rare exceptions such as Uruguay's Jose Artigas, were socially conservative.
The new leaders face the daunting task of propping up Somalia's first effective central government since 1991.
In the early weeks of November, the world will learn the names of the new leaders of China.
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The new leaders of Heritage and Cato Senator Jim DeMint and John Allison, respectively come from the Carolinas.
But the new leaders are mostly former ministers, people Mr Putin says he knows and can work with.
It is too early to tell what the impact of the new leaders will have on the continent.
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Will the new leaders announce political and economic policy breakthroughs at the Party Congress, including another big stimulus package?
The new leaders are trying to appear more in tune with the downtrodden.
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The new leaders are expected to spend a decade at the helm of the world's most populous country and second-largest economy.
The hope is that the whoever the new leaders of the Middle East are, they will look to Washington as a partner.
However, many people do hope for some changes under the new leaders.
In China and South Korea, the new leaders are still settling in and any significant economic reforms are yet to be pushed through.
So last year, after admitting the gang's existence, the authorities had another go at breaking it up by shifting the new leaders from Carandiru to Taubate.
China, the world's second-largest economy, appointed a new President and Premier in March and the new leaders have taken over at a crucial time for the economy.
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But the challenge for the new leaders will be to meet the expectations of their young population and convince them to lay down their weapons and go back to work.
This is a new phase of China foreign policy and is probably an early indicator of the positions that will be taken by the new leaders that come into power in 2012.
Until there is popular pressure to do so, no amount of new investment and infrastructure, no display of bonhomie among the new leaders, will conceal the grassroots segregation that the walls signal.
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The new leaders, who take charge in March, will now have to find the right balance between trying to prevent the formation of a property bubble and keeping a healthy growth rate going.
President GEORGE W. BUSH: I look forward to listening to ideas from the new leaders of Congress on the best way to support our troops on the front lines and win the war on terror.
"That suggests investors expect the new leaders will try to avoid any bond default, " says Wang Yingfeng, a bond-fund manager at Yaozhi Asset Management Co. in Shanghai, which has two billion yuan in assets under management.
Unfortunately, the new leaders still have to deal with all the same old problems: too few new drugs, too many old ones vanishing, and an environment where it is increasingly difficult to get new products to sell.
The new Nobel laureate is of the same generation as the new leaders set to take over the Politburo Standing Committee next month after the convening of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
Beijing prefers the relative comfort of the broader G-20 world that brings the developed and developing world under one umbrella, with the ability for the new leaders of China to seek political alignment from BRICS partners Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa.
Yet, in the current vacuum, the only new leaders the Palestinians are likely to choose are more opposed to compromise than the ones they already have.
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But despite the new House leaders, White House officials are not writing off the chamber as a bastion of liberalism, Snow said, adding that Bush believes the chamber will actually mirror his thinking on issues -- and perhaps even reject Pelosi's on occasion.
The reality that greets new leaders at the door to their new offices, however, is quite the opposite.
Kerry met with the new Chinese leaders to discuss a range of issues, most notably the persistent and increasingly pitched threats that North Korea has issued against the U.S., South Korea and Japan the over the past several months.
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