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An Inauguration Too Big for Words

The significance of Obama’s coronation Tuesday was overwhelming; waving goodbye to Bush, on the other hand, was an emotion much easier to measure.

By Jacob Wheeler

WASHINGTON D.C.—All night and all morning, trickles of people turned to streams, flowing out of Metro stops and Greyhound buses, through tunnels and down city streets. Those streams turned to rivers, all headed for the same destination: an ocean of bodies occupying nearly every patch of green on the National Mall, from the Washington Monument, east to Capitol Hill. More than… return to article

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