They say their states are ideal political laboratories because voters in both states still insist on "retail politicking" -- getting to know and test candidates firsthand, at town-meeting style forums, in coffee shops and, indeed, in their own living rooms.
The Wyatt trial has become the sort of place where spectators can hear references to Mr. Boutros-Ghali's private residence in Manhattan followed by firsthand accounts of meetings with, say, Richard Helms, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, or Jack Kemp, the former vice-presidential candidate.
Exxon, by contrast, seems determined to resist, just as it refuses to contemplate the possibility that some of its shareholders may sympathise with the Guardian's reporting and wish to read a firsthand account of the meeting.
Scooping the Scribblers The readers of the State Department's official blog (www.state.gov) received a firsthand account of the meeting between Ms. Rice and Mr. Qaddafi before the reporters traveling with the secretary of state did, much to the ire of said reporters.
According to two firsthand accounts of the meeting, Chiwenga told Mugabe his military would take control of the country to keep him in office or the president could contest a runoff election, directed in the field by senior army officers supervising a military-style campaign against the opposition.
DivvyCloud experienced this firsthand when a promising meeting, held when the company was just getting started, started to go south.
"I have seen firsthand in my own meetings and conversations around the capital how it has provoked deeper contemplation within the financial community of the relationship between money and society," he wrote in an e-mail message.
An important Iraqi diplomat and member of Iraq's majority Shia community, he offers firsthand accounts of the meetings and discussions he and other Iraqi opponents to Saddam held with American and British diplomats from 1991 to 2004.
A local enforcement officer (enforcement practices and condition) and a team from the operator staff with experience in maintenance practices and conditions participated in the meetings providing firsthand knowledge for the project.
Firsthand accounts of these meetings describe him as verbally combative, berating managers for perceived holes in their business strategies or proposals that placed the company's long-term interests at risk.
