1.   After the crime, patriot leaders appeared on nightly news and talk shows, spewing righteousness and anger.

2.   Now rebel leaders appear on the scene and can be named.

3.   The union leaders appear to be building public support for their cause, with clever use of symbolic gestures and public relations.

4.   Student leaders appeared on television to ask for calm.

5.   The Serbian leader appeared keen to help even before this warning was given.

6.   Both Labor leaders appear inclined to push their party toward a unity government, provided that Sharon pledges to continue the peace effort.

7.   A prominent South Korean religious leader appears to have defected to North Korea, sparking a new political battle between rival political parties in the South.

8.   Abu Sayyaf has not been wiped out, and its hard-core leaders appear to have escaped.

9.   African leaders now appear to accept that these are not just conditions for aid laid down by western countries but economic reality.