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...former Yale students who served as New Haven aldermen have donated to the Cheung campaign. One of them, Ben Healy, said that he was excited by Cheung’s campaign because he had seen firsthand the importance of bringing a student voice into city politics...
...first Varma painting while flipping through my high-school art-history textbook. (My class never got to the section on Indian art, which wasn’t covered on the AP Exam.) I would come to blame artists like Varma for the exaggerated deference I’d witnessed firsthand in India. In a country with such a rich artistic tradition, I found myself asking: What compelled a Keralite to adopt a European vocabulary to produce something meaningful and aesthetically pleasing...
...regime may have already bullied some university professors into submission. One recent graduate student in Tehran says he has firsthand knowledge of how this plot works: "I know professors in Amir Kabir University who are cooperating with Intelligence Ministry and have no scientific values, but [are there] just as Ph.D.-holding soldiers who attend school to control students...
...year-old living in Germany, I know firsthand what it is like to grow up in a country shaped by past crimes. In Germany, it is hard to know where to draw the line between patriotism and extreme nationalism. Few of my generation dare to be proud of our country. Of course Germany under Hitler committed terrible crimes, and of course they should never be committed again, but how can the children of today be expected to live with the burden of these crimes committed 60 years ago? It is not that "younger Germans ... are less angst-ridden about their...
That's to say, insiders have no crystal ball but they often have access to up-to-the-minute sales data as well as firsthand impressions from their sales managers - and that gives them an inside track on what's happening in the economy. When this special access leads them to be big sellers of their stock, well, it's a vote of no confidence in their employer's near-term future...