Word: firsthand
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...they don't. Too much recycled reportage, and the account turns leaden, leaving readers craving the terse economy of the writer's original articles; too much indulgence in personal reminiscence, and the result can be cloying and sentimental. But in Chasing the Dragon: A Veteran Journalist's Firsthand Account of the 1949 Chinese Revolution, Roy Rowan gets the ingredients just right, providing an account that has both factual heft and robust flavor...
Lauren K. Truesdell ’06, secretary of the Harvard Republican Club (HRC), said she has seen the problem of political comments interjected into a class firsthand...
...should know. After all, Leaman coached all but one member of the Crimson’s first power-play unit, and has seen their talent firsthand, which should raise the stakes for both sides...
...recordable TV service that allows viewers to pick and choose what programs they want to watch and when they want to watch them. As founder and CEO of Technorati, a site that tracks more than 4 million blogs and countless RSS feeds each day, Sifry has seen firsthand how Web users are running their own virtual newsrooms. "There will be a big shake-up of what are considered established brands," Sifry says, with people supplementing established names like the New York Times and BBC News Online with blogs and other nontraditional sources of information. Perhaps, but it is just...
...Orange County, the hopelessly terrible movie with Jack Black and Forrest Gump’s kid, and now, I feared, this would become a long-running fad. Having grown up in Orange County—specifically Irvine, a particularly plastic suburb—my whole life, I knew from firsthand experience that life there was not engaging or dramatic enough to merit a movie, let alone an entire television series. Plus, calling Orange County The O.C. would be like calling San Francisco “The S.F,” or Cambridge “The Bridge...