11 04: I don't think tonight will silence the liberal pundits who think this convention needed to be more attack-oriented.
During the DNC he didn't have the tools to coordinate with all the members of his team and the press when the convention needed to be moved from a football stadium into the nearby arena.
Once in SARS-wary Las Vegas, my cabdriver, Jethro Parker, told me the whole convention might need to be quarantined if so many as one Asian visitor fell sick.
DeLear argued against that concern, noting that any amendments passed by a convention would need to be ratified by three-quarters of the states.
After study of the British and American archives, and drawing on his fascination with the residue of empire, he showed that the origins and drafting of the convention need to be seen from the perspective of a British government obsessed with the colonies, a corrective to the popular view that the convention was simply a response to wartime brutalities.
With only $25 million raised so far, the committee is scrambling to offer a new round of special deals for corporate underwriters, as well as to devise a backup plan should the fund-raising fall short and plans for the convention need to be scaled down.
There are clearly a whole bundle of social rules and conventions that will need to be formed and regulated in these spaces – especially as a wider array of people come onboard.
You can have both, but Super Bowl entertainment-for-its-own-sake conventions suggest you need to be pretty insistent.
The convention would not need to be expensive.
What was a straightforward, if laborious, process under European convention rules will need to be hammered out in a series of individual co-production treaties with each country involved.
