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
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