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...merely a Peace Corps for undergraduates, College Corps operates independently from government funding, recognizes the short summers in which undergraduates have to work, and emphasizes an academic component through a seminar program because Elias and Kalamchi believe “academics and firsthand experience are complementary...
When Edwards visited the Fitzpatrick home in Gilbert last spring break, he got to see the intensity firsthand...
...court,” Wecker said of having Delaney-Smith as a coach. “I really did not know what kind of coach she was like when we played [Harvard]. I could tell that her players liked her, but I didn’t really experience that firsthand until this summer...
...needs facts? This was a debate carried to a Platonic level of abstraction, with little firsthand information to get in the way of the warring factions' preconceptions. For conservatives, the demon was a snobby, radical media-entertainment industry; for liberals, an overreaching, freedom-averse ruling party. ("Right-wing thought police declare Reagan, like dissent, off-limits," cried People for the American Way, as if this would lead inevitably to storm troopers forcing audiences to watch Fox News at gunpoint...
...needs facts? This was a debate carried to a Platonic level of abstraction, with little firsthand information to get in the way of the warring factions' preconceptions. For conservatives, the demon was a snobby, radical media-entertainment industry; for liberals, an overreaching, freedom-averse ruling party. ("Right-wing thought police declare Reagan, like dissent, off-limits," cried People for the American Way, as if this would lead inevitably to storm troopers forcing audiences to watch Fox News at gunpoint...