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...noon on Jan. 20, Barack Obama will take the oath of office and President George W. Bush will cease to be the most powerful person in the free world. Instead, he'll become a guy who might be the most powerful person in the wealthy Dallas enclave his family is moving to after Washington. Might be. So what's a former president to do? Bush has said he's going to work on his library, write a memoir, and earn some bank on that mythical "speaking circuit" that has proved so remunerative for Presidents past. His immediate predecessors include...
...Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because We the People have remained faithful to the ideals of our forbearers, and true to our founding documents...
...women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration across this magnificent mall, and why a man whose father less than sixty years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath...
...also likely that at a time when politicians use the phrase "church, synagogue or mosque" and both Hanukkah and Eid are celebrated at the White House, the addition of a rabbi to the lineup would have required balancing with an imam. For a man who will take the oath of office using his full name - Barack Hussein Obama - and spent much of the campaign being dogged by phony rumors that he was a closet Muslim, that might have been a step...
...prodded by fleet operators to keep on schedule and make money, repeatedly take risks ranging from filling aging vessels beyond safe capacity to setting sail in dangerous weather, according to maritime-industry regulators. In the Philippines, for example, ferry captains are required to submit a document called the Master Oath of Safety Departure (MOSD) - testifying that the vessel meets all requirements and disclosing the number of passengers on board - to the coast guard before every sailing. But "the shipping industry wants to earn income," says Lieutenant Garydele Gimotea, spokesman for the Philippine Coast Guard. Overloading is commonplace, and documents...