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...saying roughly the same thing: it may be an odd marriage, but it works for them. What a difference a year can make. Now there are three new biographies of Diana, all claiming the union is dead, a disaster, a sham. And as usual, woe is what sells. Andrew Morton's Diana: Her True Story (Simon & Schuster; $22) tops the best-seller lists; Lady Colin Campbell's Diana in Private: The Princess Nobody Knows (St. Martin's Press; $19.95) and Nicholas Davies' Diana: A Princess and Her Troubled Marriage (Birch Lane Press; $21.95) are on the charts...
...Morton's is the headliner because his sources include Diana's brother Charles and Carolyn Bartholomew, a close friend. It may be that the impetuous princess, despairing of the prince's love, got sick of all those saccharine tomes and decided to get her real story out. The result is avidly pro-Diana. But was it worth it -- publicizing the distasteful bouts with bulimia, the pitiful suicidal gestures, the shouting matches in which she shows up as a fishwife...
...outlines are clear enough. Neither the prince nor the princess got much parental love. The best part of Morton's book is the simple, affecting account by Diana's brother of their childhood, ruptured when their mother ran off with another man. Prince Charles saw his mother an hour a day -- 30 minutes in the morning, 30 minutes at night. If she was around...
From the beginning, Perot chafed at the arrangement. Rollins, in charge of day-to-day operations, drafted an expansive budget of $150 million, including a direct-mail campaign and broadcast advertising. But Perot's two longtime business associates, Tom Luce and Morton Meyerson, decided that it would be prudent if they, rather than Rollins and Jordan, presented the spending plan to Perot. Luce feared a volcanic reaction from the boss and wanted to spare the new recruits...
...target. Press spokesman Jim Squires points to polls indicating a low number of undecided voters to back up his assertion that Perot must chip away at the supporters of both Clinton and Bush to win. "The task left now is to take the other guys' votes," he says. But Morton Meyerson, the chief executive of Perot's computer company, who is serving as a senior adviser to the campaign, advocates a broader appeal. "We're not going after anybody," claims Meyerson. "We'll offer up a program and invite people who find it attractive to come in and help...