Word: firsthand
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...Especially at Harvard, it's easy to become completely isolated in academic experience," Onie says. "But for a lot of students in Project HEALTH, it's been a window to the realities of life during this sheltered period and has let them see firsthand how they can affect meaningful change without that degree...
...couldn't have begun more differently--it was arranged--but it too is a negotiation in disappointment. Which is in part why the men turn to O'Connell's, for "it feels good--no it feels great--to know at least one particular place, one particular period, from firsthand experience, eye-witness reports; to be the authority, to have time on your side, for once, for once." Smith later turns her attention to the next generation, to Archie's daughter Irie, an unwieldy girl who feels herself "a stranger in a stranger land" and to Samad's twin sons Magid...
...time it was over, Reno had witnessed firsthand the devotion seen by INS officials in January, after they initially interviewed Juan Miguel at length and found that he was the kind of father who knows his child's shoe size and the names of his favorite teachers. He wanted Elian back, and he had no desire to live here. "Mr. Gonzalez and I do not share political beliefs," Reno said Friday afternoon. But "it is not our place to punish a father for his political beliefs or where he wants to raise his child." To do so, in fact, would...
...young Indy gallops toward a smoke-billowing circus train and leaps aboard. That engine and those tracks are part of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, a Hollywood favorite and the highest and longest narrow-gauge railroad in the U.S. But seeing it onscreen doesn't compare with riding it firsthand, as 70,000 tourists and train buffs do each year...
...father of two sons, both recent Harvard graduates, Palfrey says he knows firsthand that parents do not always teach their children everything they should...