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Biden Visit Underlines Foreign Policy Challenges
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U.S. Presidential Power Transfers Peacefully
As he prepares to assume office, President-elect Obama is busy selecting his key advisers and conferring with Bush Administration officials. The result is an orderly transfer of power from one presidential administration to another - a hallmark of U.S. democracy.
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Poet Looks to Earlier Work for Inaugural Verse
Many people are giving poet Elizabeth Alexander advice about the poem she is writing for the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama. But she is looking to earlier American poets — Walt Whitman, Gwendolyn Brooks, W.H. Auden and Robert Hayden — as inspiration.
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