Word: firsthand
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Langone's work is wonderfully provocative, notonly because it's filled with anecdotes dug fromthe bowels of Harvard's Countway Library ofMedicine but also because his sources arepredominantly primary. Langone observed a grossanatomy class firsthand and shadowed medicalstudents and doctors to detail their experiences...
...cameras also gave fans a firsthand view of Page, 51, who sweated through his dark purple satin shirt, alternately smirking and grimacing while his fingers flew across the guitar...
From the start, says West Coast bureau chief Jordan Bonfante, "the key was exclusive, firsthand access." Jeffrey Ressner, TIME's entertainment correspondent, was able to chat with Spielberg at his Pacific Palisades home. He interviewed Geffen in the record mogul's austere office. And he was with Katzenberg from the producer's trademark dawn breakfast meetings through his final business phone calls, way past the Letterman hour. Says Ressner: "While all three men were press-savvy, they opened up and seemed genuinely stoked about their new adventure together...
...just released report from the CIA concludes that 90% of Bosnian war atrocities were committed by the Serbs, with at least the tacit approval of their leaders. The report, based on aerial photographs and firsthand accounts, comes just as the U.S. and its European allies are portraying Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic as a peacemaker, seeking to lure him into serious negotiations with the Bosnian government and Croatia. Meanwhile, in northwestern Bosnia, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees cut emergency food aid to more than 100,000 Croatian Serbs and Muslim rebels, saying their leaders were making relief efforts impossible...
...last week the reporters witnessed firsthand the Islamists' ability to commit violence at will when they were awakened by an explosion scarcely three miles from their hotel. At 5:50 a.m. on Friday, the Muslim holy day, a beige Peugeot pulled up in front of an apartment block in the Algiers district of Kouba. Residents who had arisen for morning prayers saw the driver climb out and jump into a waiting car with two men. As they sped away, the three shouted, "Allahu Akbar...