Word: dianas
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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WING MAN In a holding room under the stage, Edwards watches Kerry introduce himself to America. Beside Edwards, his daughter Cate shares the couch with Kerry's daughter Vanessa. In the chair is Kerry's sister Diana...
Eventually Kerry did mention Diana's situation in some speeches but only after his sister began to talk about it publicly. That confirmed something I had long suspected: Kerry is a very proper Bostonian. His apparent aloofness is actually an antique form of New England propriety. His reluctance to wear his religious faith on his sleeve is part of this ethos, as is his formal, hortatory Sunday-sermon speaking style. A strong sense of honor comes with the territory, a discomfort with swagger and braggadocio. "I once was with Kerry watching Bob Dole on television," recalls David Wade, an aide...
Early last summer, Kerry told me--off the record--that his sister Diana had been laid off from her job as a Boston public-school teacher because of budget cuts. Kerry had recently staged a press conference with the teacher of the year in South Carolina, who had also been laid off, and I asked him whether he planned to hold a similar event with Diana. "Oh, no," he said. "I wouldn't want to embarrass...
COVER: Photograph for TIME by Diana Walker. INSET: Photograph for TIME by Callie Shell--Aurora
...elder two girls knew the show by heart. As the curtain rose slightly, revealing three dozen pairs of shapely legs and happy feet, Diana whispered to Mary, ?Julian Marsh is putting on a show!? - the play?s first line. As each number came up, the girls silently mouthed the lyrics and moved subtly in their seats, miming the actors? gestures. At intermission, Diana strode into the aisle and did an expert tap routine - no small accomplishment, considering that she was barefoot. The theatergoers applauded her as vigorously as Mary and I had at home. A star was born...