Word: hindsight
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...Chirac's domestic legacy is unlikely to take on new shine with hindsight (especially if Sarkozy fulfills his own promises to take brisk and energetic action on reform), but it may be ameliorated by his foreign policy achievements. Many observers in France predict Chirac's presidency will over time enjoy the kind of foreign-policy-inspired revision that partially rehabilitated Richard Nixon's place in history...
...Moreover, it would give a false sense of security and would not have prevented this tragedy. A very determined, very deranged young man perpetrated these atrocities. He was intent on mayhem, and he succeeded. It was the courage of many individuals that prevented the mayhem from being far worse. Hindsight is 20/20. Rather than cast aspersions on an exemplary institution, let's move forward in healing...
...year-old kids who’d always try and find a teacher who would be a director of a play, and we’d kind of come in and just play with power tools by ourselves,” says Ur. “Which, in hindsight, was a giant lawsuit waiting to happen.”At Harvard, Ur was hesitant to involve himself in the theater community, but taking note from his freshman roommate, decided to check things out. “Somehow from kinda not getting involved turned into a zillion plays...
...Harvard student experience.BURDEN OF PROOFNowadays Harvard broaches the subject at the start of freshman year, requiring freshmen to attend mandatory workshops run by OSAPR.But before the office was established, the administration dealt with the issue through the Administrative Board, a mechanism students criticized.“In hindsight I feel that they were less helpful than they could have been,” remarked an unnamed student who had brought her sexual assault case before the Ad Board, in a 1999 issue of the student magazine Perspective.Another interviewee, asked what the administration could have done better concerning her case, said...
...From a legal standpoint, this distinction is crucial. As law professor Michael Krauss of George Mason University in Virginia points out, "We never judge negligence in hindsight. We always judge it in foresight." And you can make a good case that the Virginia Tech cops and other employees who knew of Cho's erratic, self-destructive, and possibly criminal behavior since the fall of 2005 should have done more to help him or expel...