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...before Australia," says Foreign Minister Alexander Downer. "We put Australia's national interest first. Institutions like the U.N. are important - the question is how are you going to relate to them in the national interest." The Howard government committed troops to lead the U.N. peacekeeping effort in East Timor (about 1,000 remain there). But it sees Labor's faith in the U.N. as unrealistic, given the world body's failure to enforce its resolutions on Iraq or bring peace to Rwanda, Kosovo, Bosnia or Sudan. In a post-9/11 world of terrorism, black-market nukes and bioweapons...
Matthew P. Downer ‘07, a government concentrator in Quincy House, interned this summer in the Program Office of the Republican National Convention. He is on the board of the Harvard Republican Club and is Vice-Chair of the Massachusetts Alliance of College Republicans...
...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...
...This is probably one of the better jobs you can get this summer,” says Kadakia, an HRC member who, like Downer, will campaign in the Granite State this fall...
Still, she doesn't deny her role in events. "I see now there were signs," she says, "but I was drunk, so they were kind of blurry and went by really fast." If her show sounds like a downer, it's not. Though she has never been the kind of comic to stack up one-liners, she manages, over two rambling hours, to take aim at the standard fodder--politicians, pets, audience members--in the same slightly exasperated and self-mocking tone that made her such a success in the 1990s when she played large auditoriums...