Donald Trump, who attended the ceremony as a youngster, recalls, "not one person recognized him!"
Vice President Joe Biden and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta participated in the ceremony as well.
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He described Beijing's opening ceremony as "extraordinarily, eye-wateringly spectacular" and that of Athens 2004 as "incredibly beautiful".
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Averbukh shed tears at the medal ceremony as the Israeli national anthem played and the crowd stood in silence.
More than 24 million people watched the Olympic opening ceremony as it was broadcast live on BBC One on 27 July.
There was applause and cheers from the crowd watching the ceremony as wounded soldiers paraded into the ground with their colleagues.
Musharraf, who seized power in a 1999 coup but stepped down as army chief last November, attended the ceremony as a civilian.
Britain's track and field athletes were absent from the ceremony as they are yet to travel to Beijing from the team's Macau training camp.
It revealed itself at the weekend, when the president was forced to abandon his appearance at a national day ceremony as part of the crowd shouted "traitor!"
The actress dedicated her award to the "wonderful people I've worked with", including her agent, friends, family and her husband who was not able to attend the ceremony as he was "snowed in" on their farm.
Also, she advises intercultural weddings can seem more cohesive if an officiant and readers incorporate some native languages into the ceremony as a nod to family members who have traveled from another part of the world.
They included in particular the supporters of European federation, to which she was implacably opposed, their numbers swollen by grandees who had held high office under her but whom she had dumped without ceremony as ministerial failures.
Shortly after the election, he received his invitation in a phone call from Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and on Monday Mr. Sharif invited the Indian leader to attend his own swearing-in ceremony as prime minister, recalling that both men hail from the same province of Punjab that was violently split in two when Pakistan was carved out of British India in 1947.
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Eight African heads of state flew in for the ceremony, as well as Laura Bush and Condoleezza Rice.
Tuesday will be a day of pomp and ceremony, as the queen attends a service of thanksgiving at St.
For a ceremony billed as heralding the return of Libya, as well as the hostages, to the fold, the affair was modest.
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In the eyes of many in the world, this every-4-year ceremony we accept as normal is nothing less than a miracle.
On Friday evening there was a short ceremony at Culdrose as the Olympic flame landed from Athens on board flight BA2012.
"Welcome to the greatest music show on earth, " said rapper LL Cool J at the beginning of the evening in his role as ceremony host.
The new leader asked that the inauguration ceremony be kept as low-key as possible, and invited just three dozen or so personal guests to join the 350 officials attending.
The international financial crisis has become a kind of induction ceremony for China as a world power, which will go through another ritual when Timothy Geithner, America's treasury secretary, pays tribute in Beijing next month.
Dressed in simple, white vestments rather than the golden robes and ornate miter that his predecessor donned at his inauguration eight years ago the pope presided over a shortened ceremony installing him as leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics.
With an uplifting, "people power" theme combining references to British history and pop culture, the rambunctious ceremony covered subjects as diverse as the Industrial Revolution, the National Health Service, popular children's book characters including Peter Pan and Mary Poppins, and pop stars past and present.
By contrast, those who came to Shinseki's retirement ceremony did so as an act of support, and they included not only Army brass who appreciated the stance he had taken on Iraq but a contingent of his West Point classmates, who, like Shinseki, had served in Vietnam during the 1960s.
Newdow said December 31 that he did not name Obama in his suit because in addition to participating as a government official in the ceremony, Obama possesses rights as an individual that allow him to express religious beliefs.
During the ceremony, offerings such as tobacco may be made to the spirits.
The media was effusive in its praise for the opening ceremony, describing it as 'slick' and 'spectacular'.
And as the ceremony -- the formal ceremony finally began, the dancing quieted down a little bit.
As the ceremony ended, a group of several hundred young men marched up the hill towards a police station.
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