president "may be suffering a rhetorical-testosterone deficit when it comes to dealing with crises." Campbell's one-time co-author, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, got at this point in Eloquence in an Electronic Age: The Transformation of Political Speechmaking. That's what Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker thinks.

It’s okay to talk quickly, but whenever you say something profound or proactive or ask a rhetorical question, pause. Patricia is a Past President of the National Speakers Association, Co-author of Speaker's EDGE: Secrets and Strategies for Connecting with Any Audience, (415) 753-6556, www.fripp.com , pfripp@ix.netcom.com.

Desmond Morris , zoologist and best-selling author of The Naked Ape and Manwatching was a fellow of the same Oxford college as me. Mr Maschler was friendly enough, but said that he thought the book would be much better if he recruited what he called a ‘co-author’, which I took to be a polite word for ghost-writer.