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J. David Hoppe, president of Quinn Gillespie & Associates, a Washington public relations and lobbying firm, poses in the lobby of his office, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009. Two decades after a bomb blew Pan Am Flight 103 from the skies over Lockerbie,...
