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Just before 8:46 a.m. on Sept. 11--the moment that, two years ago, American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center--President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and their wives stepped onto the lawn of the White House for a moment of silence. During that long day of remembrance, the President's only public engagement was at St. John's Church on Lafayette Square, across the street from the White House. A year ago, Bush spent 14 hours visiting all three sites of destruction and death--downtown Manhattan, the Pentagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facing Reality | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

...Grasso has the support of his board and says he isn't leaving. "Dick's pay is fair and reasonable," says Kenneth Langone, Home Depot co-founder and a Grasso friend who served on the board as chairman of the compensation committee until this year. No one disputes that Grasso, 57, is an effective leader. On his watch, the exchange has won hundreds of listings, improved trading capacity and expertly navigated the Sept. 11 crisis. For Grasso's 9/11 efforts alone, the board awarded him a special bonus of $5 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grasso In The Stocks | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

...ARENA: Slow and steady, Dick Gephardt is back in the race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Table of Contents: Sep. 22, 2003 | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

...early December of 1987, Dick Gephardt had been stumping Iowa for two years. He had visited all 99 counties--and his first campaign for the presidency seemed a total bust. He was in last place in the polls, having once been first. He had literally lost his voice. I remember him sipping boiled water laced with lemon and honey as he trudged door-to-door in the snow. "People were telling me, 'I know I promised to support you, but I think I made a mistake,'" the Congressman told me, with a laugh, over turkey sandwiches in his Iowa campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tortoise Is Stirring | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

...classic Horatio Alger story. Unfortunately, he was like Horatio Alger on steroids." JOHN C. COFFEE, Columbia University securities-law professor, describing the blue-collar background and $139.5 million pay package of ex-New York Stock Exchange chairman Dick Grasso, who resigned amid anger over his compensation

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

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