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...excited to be with people who are so like-minded,” Matthew P. Downer ’07 says, standing in a press box that overlooks the crowded convention floor. “Everywhere you look—with the exception of perhaps the press gallery—people who you talk with are friends and fellow Republicans...
Starting his job in June, Downer has worked as an assistant in the convention's Office of External Relations and Program Committee, where he planned logistics for the convention week’s speeches. “Preachers and patriots” are his charge, he says, referring to the guests who fill much of the week’s schedule. Downer, a fledgling politico from Chattanooga, Tenn., serves on the board of the Harvard Republican Club...
Downer’s work won’t end with Bush’s acceptance speech tonight. Downer, who has worked on senate and congressional campaigns in Tennessee, plans to travel to Pennsylvania and New Hampshire—two major swing states—in the fall. “We’re going to try to let our resources and the man power we have in Massachusetts work where it counts,” he says...
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo hasn't suffered much from her recent decision to withdraw 51 troops from Iraq to save the life of Angelo de la Cruz, a Philippine truck driver kidnapped by insurgents in Fallujah. Despite a rebuke last week by Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer?"If we start caving into terrorists," Downer boomed, "our foreign policy, our international relationships will be determined by terrorists"?Arroyo has been flaunting her decision to grant the kidnappers' demands and bring home the soldiers as a badge of honor. She crowed about De la Cruz's homecoming in her annual State...
...boundary talks will resume in Canberra in September. "Australia is refusing to negotiate on the main issue-the location of the lateral boundaries," says Galbraith. "There's a significant gap at the moment, and closing that gap will take a long time," counters Australia's Downer. East Timor's Alkatiri says his country is open to a "creative solution" but would call on "mutual friends" if the talks fail. Downer says Australia is open to fresh ideas: "We have heard a lot of abuse and criticism, but in terms of constructive solutions, let's see them...