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SAN MIGUEL DEL MONTE, Argentina (CNN) -- In a small farming town 105 kilometers (65 miles) southwest of Buenos Aires, farmers are struggling to nourish their crops and feed their animals. The worst drought in half a century has turned Argentina's once-fertile soil to dust and pushed the country into a state of emergency.

Argentine farmers profited in years past from selling beef to the world, but some now struggle to feed their cattle.

Cow carcasses litter the prairie fields and sun-scorched soy plants wither under the South American summer sun. Farmers are concerned about their livelihoods.

"I'm losing money. I can't afford to lose money all the time," said Juan Cahen D'Anvers, whose family has been farming in Argentina since the late 1700s. He owns 700 hectares (1,730 acres) in San Miguel del Monte, where he grows sunflowers and barley.

He says this year is one of the hardest he's ever had.  Watch farmer explain how hard he's been hit Â»

"Production is going to go down a minimum of 50 percent, maybe more. I don't know yet," he said.

Argentina is one of the world's breadbaskets, providing commodities such as soy, wheat, corn and beef to countries around the globe. In recent years, record-high prices for these products reaped millions of dollars for Argentine farmers, but since the global economic crisis hit, demand and profits have dropped. Now the drought is making matters even worse.

Cesar Gioia, another San Miguel del Monte farmer, said time is growing short.

"If it doesn't rain in the next 10 days, I will have to wipe out my entire corn crop, 90 hectares (220 acres)," he said. "The best I can do with it is feed it to my cows."

Facing pressure from farmers, Argentina President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner announced emergency measures this week that will exempt the worst-hit farmers from paying most taxes for one year.

"This is a big boost of patriotism, and a sign of support from all Argentines," Kirchner said on January 26. "All other sectors of the economy will continue to contribute, so we can help the farmers who have been affected by this drought."

Kirchner has had a contentious relationship with farmers, who staged noisy protests and strikes last year over an increase in export taxes. Those taxes eventually were reduced, but farming leaders still contend that the government is out of touch with their needs.

They say the measures announced this week fall short, and are demanding a cohesive, long-term plan for dealing with emergencies such as the current drought. If not, they say, they may strike again.  Watch how farmers reacted to Kirchner's move Â»

"Sure, this plan is approved now, and it helps, but we need money to feed cows, to go back to planting crops, because this drought is impacting life in every sector of society," said Eduardo Buzzi of the Argentine Agrarian Federation.

As she yanks dead soy plant vines from a dusty field in San Miguel del Monte, Lorena del Rios of the Argentina Rural Society says she expects the drought to affect both Argentine and overseas consumers, especially when it comes to Argentina's world-famous beef.

"We will see less meat available, which means rising prices," she said. "There is even the possibility that in a few years Argentina will have to import beef, which is almost unthinkable for people here."

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SPRING HILL, Tennessee (CNN)  -- General Motors idled its Spring Hill, Tennessee, facility as part of its bankruptcy plan Monday, leaving hundreds of employees -- and thousands of residents who rely on the plant's economic thrust -- in limbo.

Johnny Miranda is trying to stay positive about the plant where he has worked for 16 years.

Spring Hill, about 35 miles south of Nashville, is a town built on the jobs that the plant provides. The town has seen its population jump more than 1,600 percent in the almost 20 years since GM sent the first Saturn down the assembly line in June 1990.

"I want to think positive," said autoworker Johnny Miranda, who left a GM plant in Van Nuys, California, 16 years ago to work in Spring Hill. "It could bring you down. It could really mess you up if you be thinking they're going to close it and you're going to lose your job."

The future is uncertain for the plant's 3,000 employees. GM could shut down, phase out or sell the plant. Local media outlets report that the plant will end production toward the end of this year and that assembly of the Chevrolet Traverse will be moved to Lansing, Michigan.  Watch Spring Hill residents share concerns Â»

The Spring Hill facility ceased building Saturns more than two years ago as sales slumped. After a yearlong retooling, it started pushing out Chevy's crossover sport utility vehicle instead.

Saturn had originally billed itself as a "different kind of car company," and GM had hoped the business plan and fuel-efficient vehicles would allow it to snatch sales away from its Japanese rivals.  Watch GM workers ponder future Â»

GM made Saturn a separate division, built an innovative plant, embraced no-haggle buying, opted for plastic over metal for many of the vehicles' parts and brokered an agreement with the United Auto Workers that fostered teamwork between the union and management.

For years the company enjoyed a cult-like following. Self-confessed "Saturnistas" attended "homecomings" on the Spring Hill campus. Web sites and fan clubs popped up across the country. One of the sites, saturnfans.com, garnered thousands of signatures on its "Save Saturn" petition in the months leading up to GM's bankruptcy.

Ultimately, GM's aspiration to sell a half million of the cars a year didn't pan out. It sold only 8,000 Saturns in November 2008 and fewer than 200,000 for the entire year.  Watch what drove GM to this point Â»

But Saturn's waning popularity was just one of a litany of problems facing the auto giant, which filed for bankruptcy and announced specifics of its restructuring Monday. In addition to shedding the Saturn brand, GM also plans to end its Pontiac, Saab and Hummer lines, as well.

The company shut down a dozen facilities and put three, including the Spring Hill plant, on standby. It also will cut ties with about a third of its 6,000 U.S. dealerships.  See which plants are closing Â»

Visit Spring Hill and it's tough to find anyone not affected by the plant's suspension. Every resident appears to know at least one person whose job is on the line.

"My father-in-law works for GM. He's worked for GM ever since the day he graduated college," Will Barnes said at a T-ball game Sunday.  See GM's history Â»

Barnes' father-in-law is anxious, like thousands of GM employees, and has resorted to yardwork to calm his nerves, he said.

"He's cut his yard five times this week because this is the level of uncertainty for him, and I hate to see him in that situation," Barnes said.

John Stansbury, 55, told The Daily Herald in Columbia, Tennessee, he has been working for GM since he was 18. His father spent 40 years with the automaker.  Watch how the U.S. auto industry has risen, fallen Â»

Because of the Spring Hill plant's flexibility following its recent revamp and the competitive local labor agreement, Stansbury said he remains optimistic but uneasy.

"The mood of the whole plant is really unsure," he told the newspaper. "We are all tense." iReport.com: What next for GM?

When the Spring Hill plant opened in 1990, the town's population was 1,464, according to the Census Bureau. The latest count, from 2007, is closer to 24,000.

In that time, numerous subdivisions have been constructed to accommodate the plant's workers. Economic officials told The Daily Herald that at least 5,000 jobs are tied to the plant. That's in addition to the restaurants, shops and other businesses that rely on autoworkers' dollars.  Watch how the bankruptcy will have a ripple effect Â»

The Spring Hill plant also gives local governments more than $2 million in lieu of taxes, the newspaper reported.

Though the fate of the plant remains contingent on market conditions, few are under the illusion that GM employees and Spring Hill residents will remain unscathed by changes to the city's lifeline.

"It's going to hurt," Miranda, the autoworker, said. "No question, it'll hurt."

CNN's Jim Kavanagh and Eliott C. McLaughlin contributed to this report.

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LAS VEGAS, Nevada (CNN) -- Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was released from a hospital in Las Vegas, Nevada on Wednesday, a source close to the case told CNN.

Jailed polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs, seen in September, has been hospitalized in Las Vegas.

Authorities took Jeffs from an Arizona jail to a Nevada hospital on Tuesday after he saying he looked feverish and was "acting in a convulsive manner, and looked in a very weakened state." Doctors there determined he should go to a larger facility, so Jeffs was flown to the Sunrise Medical Center in Las Vegas.

Sheriff Tom Sheahan of Mohave County, Arizona said before Jeffs' release that his condition was not believed to be life-threatening.

Further details about his release on Wednesday were unavailable.

Sheahan said he is trying to get information about Jeffs' condition.  Watch how authorities are mum about Jeffs Â»

Jeffs' attorney in Arizona, Michael Piccarreta, also declined comment on his client's hospitalization.

The 52-year-old is the leader and so-called prophet of the estimated 10,000-member Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, an offshoot of the mainstream Mormon church.

The FLDS openly practices polygamy at its Yearning for Zion Ranch outside Eldorado, Texas, along with two towns straddling the Utah-Arizona state line -- Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona.

The charges against Jeffs are Class 6 felonies under Arizona law, Piccarreta said, meaning that a judge -- upon conviction -- will determine whether the charges are misdemeanors or felonies. Other charges Jeffs initially faced in Arizona have been dismissed, said Piccarreta.

In November, Jeffs was sentenced in Utah to two consecutive terms of five years to life in prison after his conviction on two charges of being an accomplice to rape in connection with a 2001 marriage he performed between a girl, 14, and her cousin, 19.

According to unsealed court documents, Jeffs refused food and drink for a month in January 2007 and developed ulcers on his knees from kneeling in prayer for hours as he awaited trial.

On January 28, 2007, he attempted to hang himself in his cell, the documents said. In the days afterward while on suicide watch, Jeffs on separate occasions banged his head and threw himself against a wall.

He has been in custody since August 2006, when he was arrested during a routine traffic stop after spending months on the FBI's 10 most-wanted fugitives list.

In April, authorities removed more than 400 children from the YFZ Ranch. Child protection officials said they found a "pervasive pattern" of sexual abuse on the ranch through forced marriages between underage girls and older men.

In June, however, the Texas Supreme Court ruled the state had no right to remove the children. The court also said the state lacked evidence to show that the children faced imminent danger of abuse. The children were returned to their families.

CNN's Saeed Ahmed and Gary Tuchman contributed to this report.

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Ithaca, New York (CNN) -- Two suspected cases of suicide on the Cornell University campus have officially been confirmed by the Tompkins County chief medical examiner, bringing the total number of suicides for the academic year to six.

Cornell officials had previously said authorities confirmed four other deaths at the school as suicides.

The medical examiner says his office has been in touch with the families of the latest suicide victims.

"They have all been made aware of the manner of death," Dr. Howard Socoff told CNN.

The rash of cases has rocked the highly competitive Ivy League school in central New York State.

The most recent suicides came on successive days and prompted the university's mental health initiatives director, Timothy Marchell, to declare a "public health crisis."

In February, a freshman jumped off a bridge over one of the area's well-known gorges. The body of a sophomore engineering major was found March 11 under similar circumstances. Police are also searching for a body in another suicide witnessed March 12.

David Skorton, who became president of Cornell in 2005, has been praised by counselors for encouraging openness on an issue that many schools try to cover up.

In an e-mail to students on Friday, he encouraged them to use available suicide-prevention resources.

Skorton placed full-page ads in the university newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, every day this week, which read, "If you learn anything at Cornell, please learn to ask for help. It is a sign of wisdom and strength."

The message may be getting through. The first sentence of the quote has been written in chalk on one of the bridges where the suicides took place.

The cause of the wave of suicides is unclear, Marchell said.

The national average for school suicides is 7.29 per year for every 100,000 students, said Paula Clayton, medical director of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. That means Cornell, with 19,639 students, should average fewer than two suicides a year.

Cornell had no suicides from 2005 to 2008, according to Marchell. And the school has consistently fallen within or below the national average, said Karen Carr, assistant dean of students at Cornell.

The school has been praised by psychologists such as Keith Anderson, chairman of the American College Health Association's Mental Health Best Practices Task Force, for counseling and prevention programs that confront the issue of student suicide with comprehensive training and understanding.

Cornell responded to a cluster of suicides in the late 1990s with comprehensive training for members of the university community.

Everyone on campus, including janitors, administrators, residential advisers and professors, is trained to look for symptoms of depression. Freshmen are screened for indicators of psychological disorders, and multiple counseling services are available for students in need.

"I know that they've been doing a lot of outreach efforts to educate the community. Cornell is kind of a model in some ways," said Anderson, a staff psychologist at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Troy, New York.

In response to the current wave of suicides, Cornell will "strengthen the capacity of the community to know what to do," Marchell said. "They will be showing nonmental health professionals what role they can play and help students and faculty get the kind of support that they need."

The school also has posted guards to monitor the bridges over the gorges.

On Wednesday, campus clubs such as Cornell Minds Matters took part in a schoolwide event to promote mental health awareness.

CNN's Cassie Spodak contributed to this report.

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Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- An English tourist kidnapped from a remote Kenyan resort is being held by pirates in a remote corner of Somalia, according to experts and security analysts in Nairobi.

"Gangs from Southern Somalia took her up the coast and then moved her several times," said Andrew Mwangura, a piracy expert and maritime editor of Somalia Report, an independent online publication.

Judith Tebbutt was abducted by armed men from a remote safari lodge near to the Somali border earlier this month.

Her husband, David Tebbutt, was killed in the attack when he resisted, according to Kenyan police.

A Kenyan man has been charged in connection with the attack, a lawyer familiar with the case told CNN Monday.

Ali Babitu Kololo, who worked at the luxury resort in Kiwayu where the attack took place, was charged with robbery with violence and abducting with the intention to murder, according to a lawyer present at the hearing at the Lamu law courts.

Kololo pleaded not guilty to both counts.

A second man, Issa Sheck Saadi, is expected to appear in court at a later date.

Details of the incident are still sketchy and the British government has asked journalists not to reveal the exact location of Tebbutt to avoid abduction attempts from rival gangs.

Initially, it was feared that al-Shabaab, the al Qaeda-linked militant group, had conducted the operation as a revenge attack against the British nationals.

But a security analyst based in Nairobi, who tracks piracy operations but is not authorized to speak to the media, also believes this is the work of pirates.

"This is not the work of al-Shabaab," he said, "this is the work of southern armed gangs and pirates."

No ransom demands have been made yet, says Mwangura.

But if Somali pirates carried out the operation, it represents a marked departure in tactics.

For years, pirates have attacked commercial ships in the busy shipping lanes between Europe and Asia. A cargo ship has insurance, and after months of negotiations pirates can often clear several million U.S. dollars.

Some analysts believe that Somali pirates are now moving onto land because it's getting harder out at sea.

"Their inability to operate freely in the waters is forcing them onto land," says Andrews Atta-Asamoah, a senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies. "It's significant if you place it in the context of the struggle against piracy. Since the whole push against piracy by international navies, the pirates have been looking for new territory and new frontiers."

Atta-Asamoah says that Kenya is a natural target because if its porous border with Somalia and a high number of foreign visitors and workers.

The Kenyan government, prompted by their reliance on tourism for foreign exchange, says they are making every effort to secure the border with Somalia.

Others say that, rather than a trend, this is a one-time attack caused by a more prosaic fact: the weather.

Monsoon rains off the coast of Somalia at this time of year makes operating offshore difficult.

"This incident is a special case," says Mwangura.

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(CNN) -- In 1979, Jarreth Merz, then a young boy in Ghana, saw the dramatic results of a military coup. Watching on an old black and white television set, he and a group of his friends witnessed one of the nation's generals being blindfolded and shot to death by a firing squad. Shortly afterward, his family fled the instability of Ghana and returned to his native Switzerland.

But Africa stayed with Merz, who told his story at the TED Global conference in Edinburgh, UK, in July. He grew up to become an actor and found that he was increasingly being cast as a violent African or a terrorist. "How many terrorists could I possibly play before turning into one myself?"

"I had become ashamed of the other, the African in me."

After 28 years, Merz returned to Ghana to film the nation's 2008 presidential election and, as it turned out, to learn more about himself. "I realized that, when I'd left the country, free and fair elections in a democratic environment were a dream. And now that I'd returned, that dream had become reality, though a fragile reality."

In the first round of voting in Ghana, no candidate attained the 50% of the vote needed to gain the presidency, and an inconclusive runoff was held. People began questioning whether the elections were being manipulated. Merz said there was gunfire and he saw discouraging signs of a possible breakdown in civil order. "And my heart sank, because I thought, here we are again. Here is another proof that the African is not capable of governing himself. And not only that, I am documenting it -- documenting my own cultural shortcomings."

But rather than erupt in violence, the crowd started chanting "We want peace," and eventually, after new voting, a winner was certified and power was transferred peacefully, Merz said. "Ghana taught me to look at people differently and to look at myself differently. And yes, we Africans can."

In his film, "An African Election," Merz told CNN in an interview, "The political system, the democratic system, is tested to the utmost."

The lesson: "You don't have to rebel. You have the freedom to choose, and with that choice comes a responsibility."

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(CNN) -- Comedian Mark Russell was at a recent event in Chicago, Illinois, when he found himself sitting next to Valerie Jarrett, an adviser to President-elect Barack Obama.

Moving the Obamas into the White House will take about six hours.

Russell asked her whether President Bush's staff members were going to remove all the Os from their computer keyboards, alluding to the 2001 incident in which President Clinton's departing staff removed Ws from some White House computers.

Jarrett said no, but that didn't stop Russell from speculating what really happened when President Bush's daughters, Barbara and Jenna, gave Obama's two daughters a tour of the White House recently.

"The Bush daughters showed Sasha and Malia Obama around," Russell joked. "Barbara showed them where all the bedrooms were, and Jenna showed them how to make a fake ID."

Russell sees humor in the presidential transition, but the actual operation to move both families in and out of the White House is serious business.

The clearing out of the Bushes' belongings began over the summer, when many items were packed and taken to Crawford, Texas, says Anita McBride, chief of staff to first lady Laura Bush. Then, during the Christmas holiday, the Bushes moved their personal things out of Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland, according to McBride.

On January 20, the Obamas move in -- a side of Inauguration Day that most people never see: a grueling, precisely timed workday involving scores of staffers that follows six months of careful planning.

Gary Walters worked at the executive mansion from 1986 until 2006 as chief usher in charge of moving presidential families in and out of the White House. From his Virginia home, Walters described how the complicated Obama move in to the White House is completed in only a few hours.

In the morning, after the Bushes and Obamas depart the executive mansion for the Capitol Hill swearing-in ceremony, moving trucks will roll up to the south side of the White House, Walters said.

The drivers put down their tailgates, allowing most of the White House's 93 staff members to begin unloading Obama family items, he said.

"Staff members all have been given very specific jobs on that day, almost down to the minute as to what their responsibilities are," Walters said.

The move is designed to be seamless, painless and invisible while millions of Washington visitors -- and millions more watching on TV -- follow the inauguration ceremonies and the parade that follows.

By about 5 p.m., before the Obamas move from the parade viewing stand to their new home, the presidential move must be complete.

"Their clothes will be in their closets; everything will be put away," Walters said. "There should be no full or half-empty boxes will in view. Furniture will be set in proper places. Their favorite foods will be in the kitchen or the pantry. The chief usher will welcome them into their home and ask them what they would like to do before going out to enjoy the inaugural balls."

Incoming first lady Michelle Obama's mother, Marian Robinson, will also be moving into the White House residence, which has 24 rooms on the second and third floors. The Obamas have hired California decorator Michael Smith to use an allocated $100,000 to redecorate the space.  Watch what decorator may do with the White House Â»

"I think they're going to find that this is really conducive to family life," President Bush told CNN's Larry King. "President-elect Obama has got a 45-second commute to see his girls."

In the West Wing of the White House, the political jostling has begun among new staffers to grab workspaces near the center of power: the Oval Office.

There, the carpet is changed with each new administration to suit the incoming president, Walters said. Possibly, the office desk will be changed, as will paintings that will be hung on the wall.

Books on the Oval Office shelves will be changed per the new commander in chief, as will accessories to be placed around the room, Walters said. Staffers may tote in a new sofa and chairs -- or busts of past presidents.

Following tradition, Bush is expected to leave a personal letter written to Obama. Past letters have offered the new president private words of advice and reflection.

Several Democratic presidents have chosen to hang a Thomas Sully painting of President Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office, said political scientist and historian Martha Joynt Kumar, an expert on the White House. "In the residence, many presidents have brought their personal paintings to decorate their living space."

After movers tote out boxes of office materials from Bush staffers, the West Wing will become a dusty workspace, with empty bookshelves and the odd three-ring binder left behind, say veterans of the White House press corps.

As in previous moving periods, contractors may come to slap on a coat of paint or lay carpet as the new crop of staffers finds their workspaces.

"It was incredible," former Clinton staffer David Seldin said, recalling his experience on Inauguration Day 1993. "I think people were overwhelmed with the sense that it was real and the sense that something that you had been working on as a political campaign is actually becoming part of the government."

On Tuesday, once the whirlwind moving operation is finally done, Chief Usher Stephen Rochon will probably greet Obama the same way Walters did Bush in 2001.

Standing near the doorway to the White House North Portico, Walters recalls, he said, "Hello, Mr. President, welcome to your home."

Oh, and about those Os on White House keyboards -- two Bush officials told CNN on Sunday that outgoing aides won't be getting payback on the incoming Democratic administration.

There is an understanding that Bush will be furious if there are any pranks, especially after cordial transition between the two administrations, the officials said.

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text: staff

text: removed

text: Ws

text: from

text: some

text: White

text: House

text: computers

text: Jarrett

text: said

text: no

text: but

text: that

text: did

text: n't

text: stop

text: Russell

text: from

text: speculating

text: what

text: really

text: happened

text: when

text: President

text: Bush

text: 's

text: daughters

text: Barbara

text: and

text: Jenna

text: gave

text: Obama

text: 's

text: two

text: daughters

text: a

text: tour

text: of

text: the

text: White

text: House

text: recently

text: The

text: Bush

text: daughters

text: showed

text: Sasha

text: and

text: Malia

text: Obama

text: around

text: Russell

text: joked

text: Barbara

text: showed

text: them

text: where

text: all

text: the

text: bedrooms

text: were

text: and

text: Jenna

text: showed

text: them

text: how

text: to

text: make

text: a

text: fake

text: ID

text: Russell

text: sees

text: humor

text: in

text: the

text: presidential

text: transition

text: but

text: the

text: actual

text: operation

text: to

text: move

text: both

text: families

text: in

text: and

text: out

text: of

text: the

text: White

text: House

text: is

text: serious

text: business

text: The

text: clearing

text: out

text: of

text: the

text: Bushes

text: belongings

text: began

text: over

text: the

text: summer

text: when

text: many

text: items

text: were

text: packed

text: and

text: taken

text: to

text: Crawford

text: Texas

text: says

text: Anita

text: McBride

text: chief

text: of

text: staff

text: to

text: first

text: lady

text: Laura

text: Bush

text: Then

text: during

text: the

text: Christmas

text: holiday

text: the

text: Bushes

text: moved

text: their

text: personal

text: things

text: out

text: of

text: Camp

text: David

text: the

text: presidential

text: retreat

text: in

text: Maryland

text: according

text: to

text: McBride

text: On

text: January

text: the

text: Obamas

text: move

text: in

text: a

text: side

text: of

text: Inauguration

text: Day

text: that

text: most

text: people

text: never

text: see

text: a

text: grueling

text: precisely

text: timed

text: workday

text: involving

text: scores

text: of

text: staffers

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text: months

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text: careful

text: planning

text: Gary

text: Walters

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text: executive

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text: chief

text: usher

text: in

text: charge

text: of

text: moving

text: presidential

text: families

text: in

text: and

text: out

text: of

text: the

text: White

text: House

text: From

text: his

text: Virginia

text: home

text: Walters

text: described

text: how

text: the

text: complicated

text: Obama

text: move

text: in

text: to

text: the

text: White

text: House

text: is

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text: in

text: only

text: a

text: few

text: hours

text: In

text: the

text: morning

text: after

text: the

text: Bushes

text: and

text: Obamas

text: depart

text: the

text: executive

text: mansion

text: for

text: the

text: Capitol

text: Hill

text: swearing

text: in

text: ceremony

text: moving

text: trucks

text: will

text: roll

text: up

text: to

text: the

text: south

text: side

text: of

text: the

text: White

text: House

text: Walters

text: said

text: The

text: drivers

text: put

text: down

text: their

text: tailgates

text: allowing

text: most

text: of

text: the

text: White

text: House

text: 's

text: staff

text: members

text: to

text: begin

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text: Obama

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text: items

text: he

text: said

text: Staff

text: members

text: all

text: have

text: been

text: given

text: very

text: specific

text: jobs

text: on

text: that

text: day

text: almost

text: down

text: to

text: the

text: minute

text: as

text: to

text: what

text: their

text: responsibilities

text: are

text: Walters

text: said

text: The

text: move

text: is

text: designed

text: to

text: be

text: seamless

text: painless

text: and

text: invisible

text: while

text: millions

text: of

text: Washington

text: visitors

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text: millions

text: more

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text: the

text: inauguration

text: ceremonies

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text: the

text: parade

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text: follows

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text: about

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text: before

text: the

text: Obamas

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text: parade

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text: new

text: home

text: the

text: presidential

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text: complete

text: Their

text: clothes

text: will

text: be

text: in

text: their

text: closets

text: everything

text: will

text: be

text: put

text: away

text: Walters

text: said

text: There

text: should

text: be

text: no

text: full

text: or

text: half

text: empty

text: boxes

text: will

text: in

text: view

text: Furniture

text: will

text: be

text: set

text: in

text: proper

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text: favorite

text: foods

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text: be

text: in

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text: the

text: pantry

text: The

text: chief

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text: them

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text: their

text: home

text: and

text: ask

text: them

text: what

text: they

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text: to

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text: before

text: going

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text: to

text: enjoy

text: the

text: inaugural

text: balls

text: Incoming

text: first

text: lady

text: Michelle

text: Obama

text: 's

text: mother

text: Marian

text: Robinson

text: will

text: also

text: be

text: moving

text: into

text: the

text: White

text: House

text: residence

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text: rooms

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text: the

text: second

text: and

text: third

text: floors

text: The

text: Obamas

text: have

text: hired

text: California

text: decorator

text: Michael

text: Smith

text: to

text: use

text: an

text: allocated

text: to

text: redecorate

text: the

text: space

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text: what

text: decorator

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text: the

text: White

text: House

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text: I

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text: that

text: this

text: is

text: really

text: conducive

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text: family

text: life

text: President

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text: told

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Larry

text: King

text: President

text: elect

text: Obama

text: has

text: got

text: a

text: commute

text: to

text: see

text: his

text: girls

text: In

text: the

text: West

text: Wing

text: of

text: the

text: White

text: House

text: the

text: political

text: jostling

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text: among

text: new

text: staffers

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text: workspaces

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text: the

text: center

text: of

text: power

text: the

text: Oval

text: Office

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text: the

text: carpet

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text: changed

text: with

text: each

text: new

text: administration

text: to

text: suit

text: the

text: incoming

text: president

text: Walters

text: said

text: Possibly

text: the

text: office

text: desk

text: will

text: be

text: changed

text: as

text: will

text: paintings

text: that

text: will

text: be

text: hung

text: on

text: the

text: wall

text: Books

text: on

text: the

text: Oval

text: Office

text: shelves

text: will

text: be

text: changed

text: per

text: the

text: new

text: commander

text: in

text: chief

text: as

text: will

text: accessories

text: to

text: be

text: placed

text: around

text: the

text: room

text: Walters

text: said

text: Staffers

text: may

text: tote

text: in

text: a

text: new

text: sofa

text: and

text: chairs

text: or

text: busts

text: of

text: past

text: presidents

text: Following

text: tradition

text: Bush

text: is

text: expected

text: to

text: leave

text: a

text: personal

text: letter

text: written

text: to

text: Obama

text: Past

text: letters

text: have

text: offered

text: the

text: new

text: president

text: private

text: words

text: of

text: advice

text: and

text: reflection

text: Several

text: Democratic

text: presidents

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text: a

text: Thomas

text: Sully

text: painting

text: of

text: President

text: Andrew

text: Jackson

text: in

text: the

text: Oval

text: Office

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text: political

text: scientist

text: and

text: historian

text: Martha

text: Joynt

text: Kumar

text: an

text: expert

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text: the

text: White

text: House

text: In

text: the

text: residence

text: many

text: presidents

text: have

text: brought

text: their

text: personal

text: paintings

text: to

text: decorate

text: their

text: living

text: space

text: After

text: movers

text: tote

text: out

text: boxes

text: of

text: office

text: materials

text: from

text: Bush

text: staffers

text: the

text: West

text: Wing

text: will

text: become

text: a

text: dusty

text: workspace

text: with

text: empty

text: bookshelves

text: and

text: the

text: odd

text: three

text: ring

text: binder

text: left

text: behind

text: say

text: veterans

text: of

text: the

text: White

text: House

text: press

text: corps

text: As

text: in

text: previous

text: moving

text: periods

text: contractors

text: may

text: come

text: to

text: slap

text: on

text: a

text: coat

text: of

text: paint

text: or

text: lay

text: carpet

text: as

text: the

text: new

text: crop

text: of

text: staffers

text: finds

text: their

text: workspaces

text: It

text: was

text: incredible

text: former

text: Clinton

text: staffer

text: David

text: Seldin

text: said

text: recalling

text: his

text: experience

text: on

text: Inauguration

text: Day

text: I

text: think

text: people

text: were

text: overwhelmed

text: with

text: the

text: sense

text: that

text: it

text: was

text: real

text: and

text: the

text: sense

text: that

text: something

text: that

text: you

text: had

text: been

text: working

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text: as

text: a

text: political

text: campaign

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text: actually

text: becoming

text: part

text: of

text: the

text: government

text: On

text: Tuesday

text: once

text: the

text: whirlwind

text: moving

text: operation

text: is

text: finally

text: done

text: Chief

text: Usher

text: Stephen

text: Rochon

text: will

text: probably

text: greet

text: Obama

text: the

text: same

text: way

text: Walters

text: did

text: Bush

text: in

text: Standing

text: near

text: the

text: doorway

text: to

text: the

text: White

text: House

text: North

text: Portico

text: Walters

text: recalls

text: he

text: said

text: Hello

text: Mr.

text: President

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text: to

text: your

text: home

text: Oh

text: and

text: about

text: those

text: Os

text: on

text: White

text: House

text: keyboards

text: two

text: Bush

text: officials

text: told

text: CNN

text: on

text: Sunday

text: that

text: outgoing

text: aides

text: wo

text: n't

text: be

text: getting

text: payback

text: on

text: the

text: incoming

text: Democratic

text: administration

text: There

text: is

text: an

text: understanding

text: that

text: Bush

text: will

text: be

text: furious

text: if

text: there

text: are

text: any

text: pranks

text: especially

text: after

text: cordial

text: transition

text: between

text: the

text: two

text: administrations

text: the

text: officials

text: said

question: How many private rooms are to be redecorated?

answer: 24

question: In which time do scores of staffers switch out Bush, Obama furniture, clothes, etc.?

answer: By about 5 p.m.,

text: By about 5 p.m.,

question: What did scores of staffers work on?

answer: the Obamas move in

text: the Obamas move in

question: What did Obama allocate for decorating?

answer: $100,000

question: how much did the Obamas allocate

answer: $100,000

question: Where did the usher work?

answer: in charge of moving presidential families in and out of the White House.

text: in charge of moving presidential families in and out of the White House.