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Article: Birmingham catches breath before big run.(News)
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- The Boston Herald
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- September 3, 2001
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Tom Birmingham is safely back in his fireplaced State House office with its stained glass windows and imported English carpet, thinking gubernatorial strategy.
It's really quite simple: Even though you are the complete insider, you need to get outside because you'll never get anywhere inside if you can't be an outsider - or at least show that you haven't forgotten what it's like outside depite being inside all these years.
OK, maybe it's not that simple. But Tom's got it. "There is a certain narrow culture here," says the Senate president. "People sometimes mistake it for the culture of the state. It couldn't be more myopic."
Mercifully, ...