Word: downtowners
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When he left for the war, Bunn gave an enthusiastic speech to Bradford's sixth-graders about the duty of "citizen soldiers" to help Iraq's "nation building." No one realized how much the mayor had changed until April, when several hundred people gathered downtown to dedicate a patriotic wall, dreamed up by the soldiers' wives and families to honor all the townsfolk who had served in battle from World War I to Afghanistan and Iraq. The list started with 25 names and grew to 400. Bunn, not yet officially released from active duty but out on a pass from...
Corker said he will move from Pforzheimer House, where he has lived during the past year, to an apartment downtown. He also said that he was likely to take up office space in Apley Court—a freshman dormitory that will be vacated next year due to remodeling of the Hasty Pudding building...
...Under pressure from members of Congress and corporate executives who wanted access to the convenient downtown airport, five sources in aviation and government say that David Stone, the head of the Transportation Security Administration, is planning to announce tomorrow that a limited number of carefully screened general aviation flights will be able to return to Reagan National in three months. The private aircraft, the government sources told TIME.com, will be under the most rigorous security measures of any private aircraft anywhere in the US. Only 48 flights a day will be allowed into Washington and they will be able...
...while Reagan National is the most secure airport in the nation, it is also one of the most convenient, located only five miles away from downtown Washington. It was, before Sept. 11, the favorite landing strip for corporate jets flying CEOS in to meet with policymakers. Since Sept. 11, those jets have been forced to use other airports such as Dulles International Airport, more than 20 miles west of downtown Washington...
...evening, he's been talking about it all day and, to be perfectly frank, he's a little Hitchhiked out. "Really, on a personal and spiritual level, I don't think it's good to, like, talk about yourself," he says, kicking back with a 7-Up at a downtown Manhattan hotel. "You start to get the idea that everything you have to say is exceedingly important. It's not. It can just be like, 'I'm tired. My feet are sweating, I want to watch The Gastineau Girls. I want to watch Spike TV.'" He switches to a dramatic...