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...spates in the U.S.—to visit family in the south, or after being evacuated during the first Gulf War—didn’t do much to create roots. Maybe that’s why O’Mary took so well to the campaign trail, crisscrossing an America he had yet to know...
...probably the only person in the campaign that had an idea of what was going on from all different angles,” says Felix Schein, the MSNBC reporter on the campaign trail. “But he never betrayed what he knew at any point. He was really a rock of stability in a place where things were very chaotic and hectic...
Reporters on the trail recall with varying degrees of frustration how tight-lipped he was about Dean. “He was not a resource to us at all, and that’s exactly the way he wanted it,” says Schein. Even now, O’Mary remains talkative but guarded; it’s not that he’s evasive, it’s just that he sticks to the basics. He speaks as though he sees the world in words like “fun” and “interesting...
...more inspired political player. At a rally last month in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, she resorted to the same lame vow?"The things that Indira and Rajiv believed in, I stand for them also"?as when she first assumed the Congress leadership. On the campaign trail she agrees to every supporter's request?fix the water, build a road, reopen someone's husband's factory?with a harried and unconvincing "Yes, we will do it." With her mournfully heavy mascara, her graying hair scraped into a stern ponytail and her tired face an impassive mask of duty...
...kindly woman behind the counter regrets to inform us that she doesn't recognize the phone number, and anyway Jimmy's doesn't have a fax machine, and are we sure we have the right Jimmy's? There's more than one, you know. Just like that the trail goes dead. "You try to get people involved in the story," Conlon says with a shrug, on his way back to the car. "Sometimes they care, sometimes they don't." It didn't work this time. In Blue Blood, it does...