On Thursday, Mr Rumsfeld made a surprise visit to Iraq, to see at first hand how the prisons regime is being overhauled to prevent a recurrence of the abuses.

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With an estimated 20 million fans worldwide, Barber feels there is a duty for a club, that has benefited from the global appeal of the Premier League, to allow international fans to see the team at first hand.

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Like Clement Attlee, he worked after university at Toynbee Hall, a university foundation in London's East End, where he was able to see the wretchedness of the poor at first hand and to be shocked by it.

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He was seconded to work at the Kremlin, where he was able to see first-hand the contradictions that undermined Soviet power.

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While at SGI, he began to see first-hand the power of networks and the effect on entrepreneurialism.

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The folks in Boulder County, Colorado were unfortunately able to see this phenomenon play out first hand on December 4 at a public hearing regarding proposed land use regulations for oil and gas development that are under consideration by the Boulder County Board of Commissioners.

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At the same time it is so rewarding to see these global plans come to fruition and witness first-hand the impact it is having on students and alumni.

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