But there were other things.

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But there were just a few other things going on this week and the Inauguration festivities of Monday seem a distant memory already.

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Obama at town-hall meetings appears engaged but not fervently so, as if there were several other things that he would be equally happy doing that day.

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But, believe it or not, there were a few other things going on this Christmas week.

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"It would be great if their numbers meant there were fewer terrorists, but such action depends on other things as well, " he said.

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