Word: firsthand
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Thank you for leaving a prominent blank space on the cover of your "Heroes" issue, right between Marilyn Monroe, Princess Diana and Mother Teresa. It gave me a perfect place to glue a picture of another heroic woman, my mother, Constance Marie Ouellette. She provided me with a firsthand example of living a life of meaning and humble service. Hey, Mom, you made the cover of TIME magazine! BERNARD OUELLETTE Cape Canaveral...
HIROHITO, EMPEROR OF JAPAN Manifesting wisdom and honor, the Emperor's era of Showa (Enlightened Peace) spanned the greater part of a 20th century during which the struggle between war and peace raged. A decade ago, I witnessed firsthand the final moments of the Showa era with the Emperor's death, and I was highly honored to have been charged with the profound responsibility as government spokesman of announcing the name of the new era of imperial rule, Heisei, which means "Achieving Peace." Thus the legacy of Emperor Showa lives on in his son, Emperor Akihito. We must all make...
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Kevin Landis, who manages the Firsthand Technology Fund, ventures that this may prove to be a good time to start buying Net stocks if you've been out of the game--and are a long-term investor. So, you're jumping in with both feet, right, Kevin? After he stops laughing, Landis says, "We've just got away from the scary point at which people say, 'I don't know how to value it, but I have to own it anyway.' [But] we're nowhere near levels where you can start making a value argument...
When Joe's second son, John F. Kennedy, was ready to make his run for the presidency, the family fortune was estimated to be between $300 million and $500 million, one of the world's great private hoards. "I never felt the Great Depression firsthand," Senator Kennedy said as he campaigned in 1960. "I learned about it at Harvard." By then, the moneymaking was clearly of secondary importance in the Kennedy ambitions. "None of my children give a damn about business," Joe said with pride. "The only thing that matters is family. I tell them that when they end this...