Everyone!Spit out your gum!¡±yelled Melinda Hudson£¬a public¡£ relations consultant working with the White House£®Fifty volunteers from community service programs had gathered on the South Lawn for the historic bill£®signing ceremony£¬and Hudson wanted it to be visually perfect£®¡°Don¡¯t spit it on the White House lawn!¡±She col¡¤ lected seven or eight pieces£¬wrapping them neatly in wads of paper£® Under an enormous wedding£®style tent nearby£¬the grunge band Soul Asylum warmed up the audience with its hit song¡°Runaway Train£®¡±Dignitaries struggled to chat over the ruckus£®Some of¡°the youths£¬¡±as they were called by the event planners£¬were wearing the snazzy red£®and£®black bomber jackets of City Year£¬a Boston program that brought together Ivy Leaguers and high school dropouts to work in low£®income communities£®Others wore the Smokey Bear hats and khaki fatigues of the Pennsylvania Service Corps£¬which refurbished state parks£®Four activists showed up in dress shirts and ties instead of T£®shirts£®¡°They¡¯re wearing ties!¡±complained a White House staffer£¬ who wanted them to 100k idealistic£¬not businesslike£®Hudson skipped across the lawn to fetch some white T£®shirts to conceal their button- downs£® The conspicuously multicultural group of volunteers£¬most in their early twenties£¬had already practiced walking from the White House £®to the podium--at 1east five times--and felt they were ready to play their parts in this historic occasion£®At last£¬they saw Secret Service l
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