Word: firsthand
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...involved at the IOP than during its 40th anniversary year. Whether you are a freshman looking for a niche or a senior who hasn’t made it to the IOP yet, we hope you take the time to see what the IOP is all about firsthand...
...perks without any of the commitment. The opportunity to shop, instead of pre-registering, grants students useful information about courses—the stuff that the CUE Guide cannot provide. Shopping “Introduction to Linguistics,” for example, provided me with all sorts of firsthand knowledge about how hot the professor is (good morning, Professor Nevins...
...Each evacuee was in Beirut for different reasons, but all of them were there for the same one- to speak on behalf of those who weren't so lucky. Some of them had seen firsthand how Beirut had recovered from the destruction left by Israel's last invasion in 1982 and the country's own civil war, only to be leveled once again. The city was readying for a tourist influx, says Lina Shehayeb, a Lebanese-American who was in Beirut for a family vacation. When Shehayeb heard the news that two Israeli soldiers had been kidnapped by Hizballah...
...know what happened to that kid with the medal - he had to hock it at 16. He got hungry." The war, the defining event of the '40s, may be a given, but it's not expressed. What is explicit is the violence the American male came to know firsthand...
...eventually leads to a dusty causeway, constructed within the previous 24 hours, which crosses the river. It is a single lifeline connecting south Lebanon to the rest of the world, a fragile means of escape for despairing and frightened southerners - and an entry point for reporters eager to see firsthand this most recent outbreak of ancient history...