"He looked at my delegate name tag and said 'Mohamed Elibiary, all I need to know about you I already know,' and proceeded and walked off," Elibiary said.
I was standing in line for the tea break and a Ugandan woman standing in front of me turned around to me, looked at my delegate name tag, which said what country we were from, and said "My dear, I'm so sorry.
"He said nothing new," a short, sturdy delegate named Tatyana Meshkova said.
Things got so testy that a Kennedy adviser named Paul Tully nearly came to blows with a Carter delegate named Mario M. Cuomo.
"It's not my particular style, but he's effective," a delegate named Mary O'Brien said of Trump.
An earlier version of this article incorrectly identified a Trump delegate named David Horowitz as the president of the Freedom Center, who shares the same name.
Polanco was chewing gum and talking to a Bronx alternate delegate named Anthony J. Ribustello, who had the build of a sumo wrestler and was wearing a hoop earring and a pin-striped suit.
Next to her, a delegate named John Traier said that he was disappointed that the national Republican platform was so starkly opposed to gay and lesbian rights, but added that he was pleased that the New Jersey delegation had supported equality.
But when the roll call reached Nebraska, there was an ad lib: A middle-aged delegate named Terry Carpenter, a wealthy entrepreneur and onetime Democratic congressman (from 1933 to 1935), nominated one "Joe Smith" for Vice-President.
That moment began when a delegate named Hashmat Ghani Ahmedzai, the brother of Mr. Karzai's adviser, was criticizing his rival in the race for chairman of the loya jirga committee.
The Boston Globe, for one, persuaded a local businessman and Trump delegate named Lou Murray to write occasional columns; it also got infrequent contributions from John Bolton, whom Trump is considering for secretary of state, and Mike Stopa, a Harvard physicist and Trump supporter, said Ellen Clegg, the Globe's editorial page editor.
