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...style; Bradley calls it being "the leader that people didn't know was a leader." But that kind of leadership isn't necessarily presidential. And it isn't clear that Bradley, who had to rely on others to build the coalitions that passed his important bills, would have the skill as President to get his big ideas through Congress...
Identifying a character and a country Yankee Doodle Dandy style is an old, but difficult, device. Doyle may as well have invented it, however, given his skill in putting it to work. In a style both brawling and lyrical, blunt and acute, he sets his hero adrift on a swirling current of love and politics. By age 14, Henry is fighting in the streets with martyrs of the Easter Rising, lashing out against the English enemy with an anarchic, adolescent recklessness that barely knows what it's fighting for or why. Instead of self-awareness, Henry has guts; instead...
...some seriously addictive television. Finally a game show that didn't reward you with a new dinette set or a cheesy trip to Las Palmas. This was a diabolically simple challenge (and a fair one at that)--a tortuous series of questions that required a cool blend of skill, strategy and luck. And best of all, we could play along at home. The downside? ABC only scheduled it as a two week filler. They'll bring it back for November sweeps, of course, but the other networks will throw everything but the kitchen sink into the mix in order...
...naturally cheerful," says Richard S. Dunn '50, her husband of 39 years. "She gets other people to work for her, which I think is a valuable skill...
...That skill will serve her well as the Institute tackles the knotty problems--the future of women's studies, the choice of a permanent dean--that will shape her tenure...