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Cheers from a distance as crowd watches Obama
Barack Obama wasn't anywhere near much of the crowd massed in Washington, D.C., for his inauguration as the first black president in U.S. history. But it didn't matter.
All organizers had to do was flash his image on screens set up in the National Mall or other areas. "Every time they flashed his face, people would scream," said Genette Gaffney, a senior at Harborfields High School who attended...
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