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...more scrupulously? I was told that people like Mohammed know even better than the journalists they are helping what they are getting themselves into. After all, doesn’t Mohammed live there? Reports and rumors I’d heard of police brutality he’d seen firsthand. He knew he was risking much more than I, who vaguely imagined a motorcade of black Tahoes would come screeching up to the prison gate, loosing a platoon of American soldiers, lawyers and diplomats who would demand my release. But arguing that local journalists who help us do our coverage...
...with goofy heroes like Mario and Luigi. Among co-workers, though, Miyamoto is equally well known for his cartoonishly hot temper. Early last year, when Nintendo engineers had trouble executing his vision for a new kind of game that involved stepping on a scale and weighing yourself, they learned firsthand just how much like Bowser--Mario's fire-breathing archnemesis--Miyamoto could be. "I suffered the wrath of Miyamoto-san because we weren't coming up with enough ideas," developer Arisa Hosaka said in an online interview posted by Nintendo. "We all started panicking and just throwing ideas around, hoping...
...school setting," acknowledged that "times are changing" and said he'll comply with whatever the court orders. Ardena Gillman, who didn't think her shy daughter would ever go through with a trial, learned Heather was "not your typical teenager." As for Heather, the experience was a powerful firsthand lesson in civics. After winning the case, she scrapped her long-held plans to become a flight attendant after high school. Now, she says, "I'm going to college...
Within days of taking power in January 2003, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva flew his team of ministers to the three poorest municipalities in Brazil - he wanted the political elite to take a firsthand look at the living conditions of the impoverished voters that had elected them. On a makeshift stage in Brazil's northern scrubland, Lula, like a triumphant band leader, presented his troupe one by one. The crowd welcomed them all politely, but cheered raucously for Benedita da Silva, the black, former housemaid who picked to oversee Lula's social programs, for Culture Minister Gilberto...
...researchers pointed to “exposure to and interaction with Hajjis from around the world” as the reason for increased tolerance. After going on the pilgrimage twice, Na’eel A. Cajee ’10 said the study’s findings support his firsthand experiences. He said the Hajj “is not just about tolerating the people next to you—it’s about having the differences but bonding.” Though the two million pilgrims typically in attendance for the Hajj are logistically ordered by country, Cajee...