Mr Hollande feeds a renewed sense of hope in the country - particularly among the young - that amid the austerity, there can be jobs and salaries, our correspondent says.
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This summer, people across the country -- including some of the young people with us today -- watched you compete and thought to themselves, you know what, if they can set a goal and work hard to reach it, maybe I can too, and maybe I can go a little farther and do a little better than people think I can.
And there's no doubt about the tremendous need for mentors in this country -- with at least 15 million young people in need of a mentor.
Folk-country musician Adrienne Young is a big supporter of community gardens and sustainable farming.
We need to show the world, which has looked on frankly appalled, that the perpetrators of the violence we have seen on our streets are not in any way representative of our country - nor of our young people.
Three years into his stint overseeing the Treasury--and with the firm support of George Washington--Hamilton had managed to turn our young country into a triple-A credit.
It is a story that has unfolded across this country and across this continent, and also in my country -- the story of young people 20 years ago, 50 years ago, who marched until their feet were raw, who endured beatings and bullets and decades behind bars, who risked, and sacrificed, everything they had for the freedom they deserved.
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Listen to this: He is fighting for responsible young people who came to this country as children, through no fault of their own, and were raised as Americans -- the only country they know -- because he believes that these young people also deserve the chance to go to college, to contribute to our economy, to serve the country they know and love.
The voters understood the country was wasting resources -- and young people -- on internecine conflicts for energy that we could produce at home.
I've been able to travel this country even as this early - this young age and tell women twice my age, half my age, of different nationalities, colors, ethnicities, if you are ever diagnosed with breast cancer, it does not have to mean a death sentence.
In a young country, a pay-as-you-go system should yield surpluses, which can be invested in infrastructure and education.
Veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are traveling the country as part of Operation Free, campaigning to end our dependence on oil -- (applause) -- we have a few of these folks here today, right there. (Applause.) The young people of this country -- that I've met all across America -- they understand that this is the challenge of their generation.
My hunger for change in Scotland - tackling global warming, building the role of young people in our country and stopping the slide of civil liberties - is no less now than when I started in politics 25 years ago.
Because what I want you to understand is that -- again, especially for our young people -- that is how change always happens in this country.
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Willian Borges da Silva, the 24-year-old Brazilian superstar known as Willian, represents a certain archetype: the one who leaves his country at a young age and moves for a big fee to one of soccer's nouveau-riche clubs in Eastern Europe.
In 1997, aged 32, she moved back to Beijing from New York, joining a steady trickle of returnees (the Chinese call them hai gui or sea-turtles): young, western-educated professionals keen to apply their new skills in their own country, and to get rich.
Since last year, she has founded political clubs around the country with the aim of luring to the centre-right young Italians who are disenchanted with all existing parties.
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Education Secretary Arne Duncan told a Senate education committee earlier this year that 27 percent of American high schoolers drop out and that 40 percent of the country's "young people" earn a two- or four-year college degree.
Much of Khan's support has come from young, middle-class Pakistanis in the country's major cities, a potentially influential group.
And third, we took up the cause of the DREAMers -- (applause) -- the young people who were brought to this country as children, young people who have grown up here, built their lives here, have futures here.
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Yet there was something about being a young, blonde-haired woman in a country of beautifully dark Latin American men, coveted by them for my American-ness and resented by their female partners for my desired status, that was simultaneously disorienting, frightening and seductive.
We are ensuring we have everything in place to capitalise after the Games, with first-class community sport on offer across the country that will encourage young people inspired by London 2012 to pursue a sporting habit for life.
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The centre-left candidate, Pier Luigi Bersani, said in Milan on Sunday night that the country was facing ruin whilst Mr Berlusconi was preoccupied with Ruby - the young woman he is accused of paying as an under-aged prostitute.
We've got all over the country now these exciting community-based programs that are dramatically reducing violence among young people.
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Karel Schwarzenberg is a titled prince, 75 years of age but wildly popularly amongst young, urban voters - and closely linked to the country's first president, the late Vaclav Havel, he adds.
They discovered one stewardess was secretly married while the young woman was working with Georgia Panter on a cross-country flight.
The Country Music Association of Australia already runs short intensive courses to help young up-and-coming musicians progress in their music careers.
"Orphans usually can't get good jobs and can't marry well, " says Park Young Sook, who recently launched the country's first foster-parent association.
"It's such a great thing for our young kids in our country to be able to see these world-class athletes performing in east London, " he said.
Tait has taken 30 wickets for South Australia in this season's first-class Pura Cup competition and last month was named the country's Young Cricketer of the Year.
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