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“We’re the ones who change the signs [on the convention floor] from ‘We Salute the Troops’ to ‘A Nation of Courage,’” said Daniel Suhr, a student at Marquette University.
The IOP sponsored a similar forum at the Democratic National Convention in July. But Nowinski said that event was open to the public so the questions were more balanced.
NEW YORK—Shane Hachey was doing his part the Sunday afternoon before the Republican Convention to make sure Harvard lent a veil of respectability to the protests there.
Hachey, sporting a crimson-colored Harvard Law t-shirt as he protested in front of the convention site at Madison Square Garden, said he wanted “people to know it’s not just professionals and deadbeats who are protesting Bush.”
There has been nothing quite like it in history, an 80-year-old couple with three artificial hips between them, cheering, coordinating, rushing, talking, chuckling and helping shape the biggest power game of our time, of which, of course, they are the godparents--the Republican National Convention.