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...unmatched grip on the House and Washington lobbyists, but DeLay is not the kind of guy?in background and temperament?the President feels comfortable with. Of the former exterminator, a Republican close to the President's inner circle says, "They have always seen him as beneath them, more blue collar. He's seen as a useful servant, not someone you would want to vacation with...
...party seems to be rallying behind Olmert. The wealthy, elegantly dressed 60-year-old attorney with a taste for Havana cigars long ago lost touch with his old, blue-collar Likud constituency. Like Sharon, he has moved far from his hard-right roots to a shrewd pragmatism, becoming an outspoken advocate of separation from the Palestinians. But he lacks his mentor's charisma, military record and popularity with the public...
...movie of shifting identities, Bello is the one stable character, the rock in a hard place. The clarity and power she brought to the role won her a New York Film Critics Circle award and a Golden Globe nomination. It is a nice step up for the blue-collar kid from Philly, who distinguished herself on E.R. and as William Macy's girlfriend in The Cooler. "I had my first dress fitting last night," she says, beaming. "I was like Cinderella...
...wrote in Nickel and Dimed that after working two jobs, she didn't have the strength to look for another. Now she would have the energy, because she would just go online. Of the 50,000 résumés we get a day, more than half come from blue-collar workers. Are the machinists and lathe operators looking for a job online now? You bet. We have even put in a team to police the listings, which have included everything from prostitution to money laundering...
DIED. JOHN SPENCER, 58, Emmy Award--winning actor best known as the savvy, tough White House chief of staff turned vice-presidential candidate Leo McGarry on TV's The West Wing; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. The son of blue-collar parents, he got his break as Harrison Ford's cop sidekick in the 1990 film Presumed Innocent. That led to his big TV roles as L.A. Law's streetwise lawyer Tommy Mullaney and West Wing's top aide, who last season left his post after suffering a heart attack...