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 | WASHINGTON â€" Barack Obama stood at the threshold of the White House on Monday, summoning fellow Americans to join him in service as tens of thousands flocked to the nation's capital to celebrate his inauguration as the first black president. | ||||
| State Society throws party at Air and Space Museum WASHINGTON â€" The Spirit of St. Louis hung from the ceiling, but the scene below was all about the spirit of Greenville, Columbia, Charleston and scores of other smaller Palmetto State towns. Rally marks King holidayCOLUMBIA â€" J.W. Hayes leaned against South Carolina's monument to Confederate soldiers Monday and said he couldn't be prouder to be at that exact spot at the Statehouse, honoring the life of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Manning band prepares to march - Students in awe as inauguration nearsWASHINGTON â€" The gravity of the responsibility awaiting Manning High School's Golden Pride Marching Band began to sink in Monday, as band members and chaperones prepared for the inauguration. Brush with Obama hinted he was going placesThe recent photographs of President-elect Barack Obama enjoying a pre-inauguration vacation in his old Honolulu stomping grounds took me back to the nine years I lived in the Hawaiian Islands.  | ||||
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