It's clear they are trying to button up some of their previous problems with PR and to deflect criticism about all of their purchasing of former U.S. officials. It's a move that is clearly designed to make them look like a regular company.

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I thought it would be a nice chance to see a lot of local bands perform.

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The inaugural has sort of become a metaphor for the whole political process and how money has distorted it.

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We realize what a personal friend she could become and did become to so many of us, and what a friend she was to Bonita Springs and Southwest Florida.

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[With Gerstner, the company hopes to restore its credibility and add a financial juggernaut all in one deft move.] It's clear they are trying to button up some of their previous problems with PR and to deflect criticism about all of their purchasing of former U.S. officials, ... It's a move that is clearly designed to make them look like a regular company.

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Each of these cases is a bit different, but they all come down to the intersection of capitalism and democracy and being lavishly wooed and courted by powerful interests and being susceptible to those interests.

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We're not very deep, and tonight it just looked like we were tired. We got behind and had to press on weak legs.

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A bunch of us were appalled, ... I don't want to be represented by that. It's not Christian. ... And we're certainly not thinking about shooting government agents that come to our door.

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We basically have a situation with two classes here: a sort of political and economic class, intermingling with each other at their megabucks-level inaugural galas, and the average citizens, who at best get to watch the inaugural from hundreds of yards away.

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