Word: firsthand
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...plan that would spare the shrine from assault. Al-Sadr, said Minister of State Qassim Dawoud, is now "as free as any Iraqi citizen to do whatever he would like in Iraq." But there's surely more trouble ahead. Having spent time inside the shrine, I saw firsthand the degree to which al-Sadr's supporters are devoted, armed and determined to fight the U.S. and the Iraqi government it brought to power. Here's how it looked from inside the siege...
...There is no place for religion in the Oval Office, especially in the 21st century. The authors of the U.S. Constitution knew firsthand that religion intertwined with government causes alienation among people, not understanding. As our Founding Fathers intended, however, there will always be room for religious faith in a President's heart. Annie Overboe Villa Park...
...niece Beth turned 42 this week. (Note to readers making quick calculations about my age: my brother is muuuuuuch older than I.) She?s the oldest of four girls who, though born too late to have heard the material firsthand, somehow knew most of the songs of that miracle year, 1957, by the time they were in grammar school. At family gatherings the girls would render old songs in a saucy fashion, occasionally accompanied on the tenor guitar by their doting uncle. Now Beth Corliss is Beth Silvestri, married to an Olympic yachtsman and living in San Francisco. The girl...
Rena Xu ’07, a biochemistry concentrator in Eliot House, is an editorial editor of The Crimson. She was grateful for the opportunity to confirm firsthand that the president’s pet is not, in fact, an exuberant purple dinosaur...
...succeeded in Hollywood, broke into politics and became President as a grandfather figure to the American people. His soothing voice gave an unsure nation hope and a positive outlook on the future. He encouraged following one's dreams because that is exactly what made him successful. He knew firsthand the toils of the common man and strove to make the country a better and safer place to live. Paul A. Jereczek Dodge, Wisconsin, U.S. Reagan will forever leave his mark in the history books as the man who not only stood up for the cause and defense of freedom around...