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Having written plays with cheery names like The Birthday Party and The Lover that are in fact the opposite of cheery, HAROLD PINTER, 75, could be thought of as a bit of a downer. But there was nothing grim about his reaction to the news that he had won the Nobel Prize for Literature. The playwright told reporters he was "bowled over" by the $1.3 million award. He didn't mean it literally; the wound on his head came from a recent fall. Here's hoping we'll finally get a Pinteresque award-acceptance speech. Nothing says elation like tense...
...took up a large chunk of my childhood. Maybe I’ll watch it later—I might go to Newbury Comics, see if they have it on DVD. “Tailspin” was kind of a downer though, wasn’t as good as “Ducktales.” They had a clock that could stop time, so they could do whatever they wanted...I always wished I could have one of those. Tom E. Rodger ‘08 Well, I was always into...
Matthew P. Downer ’07, president of the Harvard College Republicans, said that Miers has a “distinguished legal and professional record and seems to be a good nominee for the Supreme Court,” and that no one should pass judgment on the nominee until after the hearings are held...
...shrine,” which included champagne, White House M&Ms, photos of Bush, cards, and a Red Bull can adorned with a Republican National Committee (RNC) campaign sticker, belonged to Matthew P. Downer ’07, who currently presides over the Harvard Republican Club. The two presidential roommates were brought together through Government 1352: Campaigns & Elections, which they took together last fall. This summer, they shared a bedroom in a house with five other Harvard students and a sixth subletter they found on Craigslist...
...think the climax of the summer was when Greg broke down and admitted that John Kerry was a flip-flopper,” said Downer, who spent the summer at the White House Office of Communications. Schmidt denies any admission of the sort. Roommate Jack P. McCambridge ’06 says the Zoo did live up to its name. “When you have Republicans and Democrats trying to live together,” he explained, “there is no accountability. Our kitchen consistently smelled like shit...