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...central axiom is that if one burrows deep enough beneath the Mao jacket, the shapka or the chador, one discovers that people everywhere are essentially the same. American Anthropologist Samantha Smith was invited to Moscow by Yuri Andropov for firsthand confirmation of just that proposition (a rare Soviet concession to the principle of on-site inspection). After a well-photographed sojourn during which she took in a children's festival at a Young Pioneer camp (but was spared the paramilitary training), she got the message: "They're just . . . almost . . . just like us," she announced at her last Moscow...
...WASN'T a problem I particularly worried about until last summer when I worked as an intern at NPR. But witnessing firsthand the devotion that made the network what it is has made its current difficulties all the more distressing. It was a place of tremendous energy and enthusiasm. On every level, reporters, producers, technicians, people seemed to take a real pride in their work. Staying after hours to make a piece that much better was par for the course. Once a stopover for would-be commercial journalists, NPR had become state-of-the-art radio and a place people...
...arrive there until Aug. 1." Nelan, however, was able to draw on information he had gleaned during a three-week trip in June through five Central American countries to assess the military situation. Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, who wrote this week's Essay, could also call on firsthand knowledge gained from two recent visits to Central America...
...which is relevant to Harvard athletics for one reason last week a group of Crimson track and field competitors witnessed the celebration firsthand while they were outclassing a squad from Cambridge Oxford in their biannual meeting The point is that while the British play around after exams. Harvard athletes play by a different set of rules...
...Catholic missionary working in Latin America, I have firsthand knowledge of anti-American sentiments among the poor. These feelings are the result not of "Communist propaganda" but rather of U.S. covert operations, which have supported repressive military regimes for decades...