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...first high-visibility Bush Administration official to fly on a U.S. airline since Sept. 11. She flew on Monday the 24th without incident from Washington's Dulles International Airport - where one of the fated planes took off on Sept. 11 - to New York's John F. Kennedy Airport, to thank employees of the Federal Aviation Administration for their extraordinary work on that day and since, and to see for herself the new security measures her agency has implemented...
...They momentarily straightened their shoulders, slumped from two weeks of stress and sorrow, for the Administrator's talk. "I just came to thank you," said Garvey, who is known for being meticulously prepared for official appearances. She is the public face of the FAA. Today was no different - despite 20 hour days, Garvey was sharply dressed in a pinstripe suit and her makeup in order, and she had already been smoothly meeting and greeting people in Dulles Airport for two hours. Then, she stumbled. "You are heroes in our minds," she gamely tried continuing, looking directly at a small group...
...definitely met some really condescending people at the day school,” Huff said. She paused to thank the bartender, another extension school student, for a cheese plate. “But I know that if I work hard and speak up, I’ll only be able to prove myself. It’s so strange, because when you take classes at night, you really see the difference when you go to day classes where the competition is so rampant. These college kids play mind games with each other in section and all really know...
Bush choppered into lower Manhattan Friday to stand at the center of the terrorist winter, surrounded by men and women working day and night to help the living and recover the dead. He had come to thank the people the whole world wanted to thank--the cops and fire fighters, the pipe fitters and welders who had left their jobs uptown to pull up the ruins downtown, the paramedics working 36-hour shifts. As much as anyone or anything, it was the images of these people doing their grim, ceaseless work that kept the country together. Bush was at home...
...Thank God for reading period,” Murphy says...