His mother, Charlotte, who turns 101 Saturday, did not make the inauguration for the first time, but he planned to return home to the Boston area on Saturday to visit her.
Asked how Mr. Ma could make the inauguration ceremony but not the Super Bowl, Mr. Ewanick laughed and replied that the Ma spot would run instead during the Academy Awards on Feb. 22. Like Hyundai, Cars.com, owned by a consortium of media companies like Gannett and McClatchy, took another look at its Super Bowl playbook after the economy worsened last fall.
So how can we be sure that the staged hand on the Bible TV moment will coincide with a good omen, thereby making the official Inauguration an actual inauguration?
All day, designers were glued to the television to see what Mrs. Obama was wearing, hoping it would be them, but she ultimately chose the same one who made the first inauguration a fashion success.
Below is the TechCrunch Guide to the Inauguration, a collection of links and apps that will help you make the most out of the inauguration.
He planned to make the most of it: the inauguration bash will last three days and cover four cities.That says much about how he sees his new job.
Armed with polling data that show a narrow majority of support for keeping the prison open and deep fear about the detainees, Republicans in Congress started laying plans even before the inauguration to make the debate over Guantánamo Bay a question of local community safety instead of one about national character and principles.
"This is not something people are used to," said Jeff Vanderbeek, the owner of the Devils hockey team, during a tour last week of one of the arena's 76 luxury boxes, as men in hard hats worked to make the place presentable for its inauguration.
"Well, after winning an election, celebrities always like to say, 'I'm going to the inauguration.' " But bragging rights among the Hollywood set can cause complications for the Obama team, which is trying to make this inauguration as "open and accessible" as possible and is painfully aware of its image in tough economic times.
The Chicago speech, almost the last to be made before the inauguration of Mr. Wilson as President, taken in conjunction with other addresses to captains of industry, is construed as evidence that the President-elect has now definitely aligned himself with the "advanced" wing of the Democratic party, which is pledged to make business men honest by the process of special inquiry and special law.
These declarations were made during the inauguration of the ninth congress on the defense of the Americas, during which Morales railed for more than an hour against the United States while US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates sat patiently in the audience.
