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Daily News… OBAMA TO JOIN SELECT ‘FOUR OATH CLUB’ ON MONDAY Barack Obama will on Monday join select political company, as by a quirk of history, he becomes only the second US president, after Franklin Roosevelt, to take the oath of office four times. Roosevelt, who guided America through the Great Depression and World War II forged history the hard way, as he was the only US leader to be elected to four terms, serving in the White House from 1933 until his death in 1945. After a new amendment to the Constitution was ratified in 1951 limiting presidents to two elected terms, Obama, and others elected to the White House, have no hope of emulating FDR’s political longevity. Obama will join the four oaths club thanks to a slip of the tongue. Swearing in Obama at the West Front of the US Capitol in 2009, Chief Justice John Roberts mixed up the wording of the oath of office, which the newly minted president repeated. Out of what officials said at the time was «an abundance of caution,» Obama aides asked Roberts to head to the White House for a do-over the next day, this time with the words in the correct sequence. On Monday, Obama will match the double oath taking of his first term, at his second inauguration, thanks to the calendar. The 20th amendment to the US Constitution requires that presidential terms end at noon on January 20 -- but according to tradition, when that date falls on a Sunday, the president takes the oath a second time in public the next day. Roberts was on duty on Sunday to officially inaugurate Obama’s second term at a private ceremony attended by the president’s close family, and broadcast on television from the Blue Room of the White House. This time there were no mistakes, as Obama took the oath, and the whole affair lasted less than a minute. Just before noon on Monday, at the US Capitol, Obama will raise his right arm again, and place his left on Bibles once owned by ex-president Abraham Lincoln and civil rights hero Martin Luther King, to take his fourth oath.
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International News… SNOW ACROSS EUROPE Hundreds of flights were cancelled and road and rail traffic was severely disrupted across much of Europe as heavy snow and freezing weather gripped the continent. Frankfurt airport, Germany’s main air hub, cancelled around 500 departing and arriving flights, representing 40 percent of its daily schedule. The busiest airport in Europe, London Heathrow, scrapped nearly 200 flights. Heathrow said a decision was taken 24 hours in advance to cancel 130 flights because visibility was expected to deteriorate as the day wore on, but problems elsewhere in Europe were having an impact too.
BOLSHOI BALLET CHIEF REGAINING SIGHT Russian doctors said that the Bolshoi ballet’s artistic director would regain sight in at least one eye following a brutal acid attack his co-workers blamed on infighting at the famed theatre. But Sergei Filin’s doctors added that a string of operations was required before they could determine whether one of Russia’s greatest recent performers could return to what may be the most influential job in dance. «The trend is generally positive,» the Moscow health service’s top eyesight specialist Larisa Mashetova said in televised remarks.
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