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| | Editorial: Inauguration day / The celebration is rich, showy -- and important (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | The second inauguration of George W. Bush as America's 43rd president today should be celebrated by both blue state and red state Americans as an important ceremonial part of the constitutional process. |
 | | Bush's detractors to grit their teeth and pretend it isn't going on, the inauguration is, in the end, the installation of the American president for the next four years. |
 | | It was raised, largely in chunks of $250,000 each, from companies and fat cats, all of whom will undoubtedly present their claims for reimbursement in the form of tax breaks, uncompetitive contracts, high-level appointments for friends and other doggie bones down the line across the coming four years. |
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