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Dr. Chris Watkin, post-doctoral tutor in Continental Philosophy, at Cambridge University, reflects on Obama's inauguration speech.
The faintest tremble of emotion in Jim Naughtie’s voice, the hesitant to-ing and fro-ing between BBC correspondents unsure of their next line, the pounding waves of background cheering: There is something both electric and frightening about anticipating the moment when the hopes of a nation are about to fall upon the slender shoulders of one man...
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