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...Most foreign students at Harvard have an American connection,' either first-hand or tenuous," says Malin, from his office on the third floor of Byerly Hall. That connection may be established through family, friends or previous visits to the United States--as the careers of these freshmen indicate--or in other, unknown ways. "We ask on the application how students learned about Harvard, but that's a loaded question. They give us the answer they think we'd like to hear, that it's known all over the world, has famous professors, etc.," Malin notes...
...MPLA is much more direct than the imperative for Americans who have neither suffered under western-backed regimes in southern Africa nor fought to expel that influence. Most of the argument Saturday was, as Gervasi indicated, condescending to a party that will have to make its decisions based on first-hand knowledge of a wartime situation. All Americans can do, Gervasi said after the resident of Roxbury had dismissed the rhetoric, is give their support to the MPLA in an outspoken and unified way. That may not be very ideological, but it is the imperative...
Solano insists that, given his views on rent control and the fact that he would lend first-hand expertise on the problems of the elderly in the city, he should have been endorsed by the Cambridge Convention. But this...
...officers from time give "expert opinions," and students often go on patrol with the officers to get a "first-hand view of how arrests are made," Kumins said...
Over oceans, landmasses and treetops the Moon now takes her dander through the darkness, to lenses a ruined world lying in its own rubbish, but still to the naked eye the Icon of all mothers, for never shall second thoughts succumb our first-hand feelings, our only redeeming charm, our childish drive to wonder: spaced about the firmament, planets and constellations still officiously declare the glory of God, though known to be uninfluential...