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The inauguration: Getting back on track

Jan. 19, 2009
Barack Obama is poised to become president, bolstered by enormous public goodwillTHE Bush era, with all its calamities and blunders, is over. Barack Obama has ridden his train to Washington, DC, and is ready to swear the oath of office on Abraham Lincoln's own bible at noon on Tuesday January...
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Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego wins Finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego, California watches confetti rain down as she wins the two-day Scripps National Spelling Bee championship, May 31, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Nandipati successfully spelled the word .* guetapens *, meaning to lure or ambush. UPI/Mike Theiler