Word: firsthand
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...Seeing firsthand exactly what the prospect of “networking” entailed, I decided that I didn’t even want to play the game. Thus, as everyone around me threw himself or herself into the activity with gusto, exchanging the obligatory “where are you from?” as they eyed the chit-producing orb in their quarry’s hands, I high-stepped it past the melting ice-cream and beelined for the door...
...JOHANNA MCGEARY, TIME's chief diplomatic correspondent, has spent the past few weeks in Pakistan watching the war from up close, pondering Pakistan's complicated role and experiencing firsthand the Muslim world's intense feelings toward America. Chat with her on Monday...
...correspondents close to the action have described a chaotic collapse, in which many Taliban commanders and troops simply fled their positions, leaving the more ideologically-motivated Pakistani, Arab and Chechen volunteers to fight and die - some of them reportedly after surrendering. Indeed, Western audiences may wince a little as firsthand tales from the battle front paint many of the proxy warriors of the Northern Alliance as no less brutal than their Talib enemies. But in Afghanistan, neither locals nor foreigners have ever fought by the Queensberry rules...
...Jackson says he is hopeful and enthusiastic about the changing national mood—a change he saw firsthand on a trip to New York two weeks...
SHUTTERBUGS One of the unique aspects of the World Trade Center disaster is that so many people witnessed it firsthand--and not only witnessed it but also snapped pictures of it. The memorable images by professional photographers will resonate forever, but now the less polished but no less powerful photos taken by amateurs have a gallery that will never go away. Yahoo has launched a new category, "Firsthand Photos," in its directory of sites, and it has links to photos taken by ordinary citizens of Manhattan, Brooklyn and Hoboken, N.J. A woman from Hoboken, in fact, has a captivating series...