21 January 2009: Morning
By The Morning News
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Obama calls immediate halt to Guantanamo Bay trials.
Several constitutional lawyers recommend Obama take the oath again, just to be sure.
We've gradually become so in sync with this transfiguration of America that we'd collectively, silently, fill in any poetry he might have missed.
Reviews of the ceremony: Alexander's poem was overly bureaucratic, knotty; Lowery's benediction hit all the right notes.
Satellite images of the inauguration crowd.
Photos: In San Francisco, Bush Street becomes Obama Street.
For good measure: "Our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over."
Violent images are the reality we need: why Al Jazeera's flagrantly political journalism works.
Russia is expected to suffer this year; xenophobia, realpolitik, bare-knuckle foreign policy are expected to follow.
Australian novelist sells seven copies of a book insulting the Thai royalty, gets three years in prison.
Maps: Residents per Ikea, by state, plus U.S. metropolitan concentrations of Ikeas.
"Playing the Beatles Backwards": ranking every Beatles song, in order of greatness.
Related: A more condensed list of great Beatles moments.
Video: Collection of breakfast cereal commercials, starting with Rice Krispies in 1939.
