Word: doer
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...female professor when she joined the Law School faculty in 1981, Minow has since pushed through various changes—she spearheaded the overhaul of a century-old curriculum at the Law School under Kagan—and established herself as a thoughtful listener as well as an effective doer...
Bravo, Tom Henderson! You are a hero. Not just a talker, but a doer. By your action you've proved you really do love your neighbor. And thank you, Rotary Club, for your generosity. Nancy Polin, PARIS...
...found Carla Power's article "Silvio's Girls" disappointing [Nov. 30]. Quelli Che ... Il Calcio is a RAI programme and not Mediaset's. What has Berlusconi got to do with RAI? The station is definitely not pro-Berlusconi. Berlusconi is a doer. His actions in Naples, which was cleaned up in a month; his rapid building program in Abruzzo following the earthquake; his measures that pulled Italy out of recession, all of these are proof of his ability. No wonder opinion polls give him close to 70% approval rating. Joe M. Zahra, BIRZEBBUGA, MALTA...
...critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again ... who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly...
...Emphasizing this encouraged convergence of the practical and the conceptual, she continues, “Every artist is a thinker and a doer. I don’t think that there is that kind of absolute split people often create...