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...student, involvement in the events has been less of a choice. Samad Khurram ’09, a Harvard undergraduate taking time off in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, has witnessed the events firsthand, and has protested against President Pervez Musharraf’s government...
...about Rain Man. I think that now as a studio [head] and someone who has studied the business, there are times where--the studio would want to try to devalue the artist and communicate that to other people. But in business reality, that's not true, because I know firsthand in dealing with this that you have to recognize market value of artists...
...Statistics are never as visceral as firsthand experience. It’s one thing to know that 300 million Chinese adults are either tobacco smokers or are exposed to cigarette smoke on a daily basis, with 40 percent of nonsmokers exposed to secondhand smoke. It’s another thing to walk inside any Internet café—which is the only affordable way to access the Internet for most Chinese—and choke from all the tobacco constantly being devoured by computer game addicts. Urban environments were so inundated with smoke that I could smell tobacco...
...Harvard that Benazir began to study theories of government,” said Yolanda K. Kodrzycki ’74 in an e-mailed statement. “I believe that this coursework helped to shape her views on political systems, in addition to the lessons she has learned firsthand in the political arena...
...Since then, Frost and his family have been introduced firsthand to something else that most kids his age haven't: the reality of how brutal partisan politics can be in the Internet age. It started over the weekend, when a blogger calling himself Icwhatudo put up a post on the conservative website Freerepublic.com noting what he had found by scavenging around the Internet: that Graeme attends a private school, lives in a remodeled house near one that had sold for $485,000 in March and is the child of parents whose wedding was announced in the New York Times...