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...Merchant-Ivory Englishness, son of a happy, well-connected family. His father Ted carries on the family tradition as a lawyer. His mother, a former dancer and airline stewardess, gets credit for bending the twig. "She wouldn't let us just watch television. She would say, 'Be a doer!'" With second wife Joan and their two children, Branson manages a vaguely normal life-style. The children are not sent away to school; Joan does the cooking; the obligatory nanny is her niece. Weekends are spent in the home of their heart in Oxfordshire, two conjoined cottages set on a river...
...ground that the Commander in Chief may be entitled to the same kind of protections as active-duty personnel. The next day the Democrats offered an ad called "Empty." With a picture of a Senator's cluttered desk, the announcer says, "He told us...he was a doer, not a talker. Then he told us that he was quitting, giving up. Leaving behind the gridlock he helped create--and now all he offers are negative attacks...
...among many world leaders. Through his numerous trips to the Middle East and through dealings in other international hot spots, he has developed a working knowledge of important issues. Granted, he is not likely to turn up at a protracted think-tank meeting and is better characterized as a doer than a talker; however, that is not a weakness but a strength that should not be discounted. PRESTON PARRISH Winston-Salem, North Carolina...
Dole's transformation represents the third "new" Bob Dole of this campaign year. After New Hampshire there was Battlin' Bob Dole fighting for the soul of the Republican Party. Of late there has been Bob Dole, a Doer not a Talker, and now we have Bob Dole, Just a Guy Without a Tie. But Bob Dole, Citizen, may be the real thing, suggests Dole biographer Richard Ben Cramer, author of What It Takes. "His resignation," Cramer says, "puts him in touch with the younger Bob Dole, the Dole of the Russell High basketball team who would go and pat everybody...
There are times when Americans need to be reassured or informed or even uplifted by the President. At those times, being a doer means being a talker...