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...year 2031--one generation removed from Sept. 11, 2001--and Americans are commemorating the 30th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington. How well did America respond to that day, when viewed with the benefit of hindsight? How has history judged our leaders' actions? Here, a historian looks back on that distant event and explains how 9/11 would change America, and the world, in ways that few could have imagined...
...fact, many journalists who monitored the coverage felt in hindsight that African Americans caught in Katrina's wake were misrepresented in the press...
With such rueful hindsight, Israel last month put in an urgent request for precision-guided, 5,000-lb. bunker busters, and the Bush Administration complied, the intelligence source told TIME. And with the New York Times last week reporting that Israel has asked the U.S. to speed up delivery of short-range rockets armed with cluster bombs, Israel appears to be massively gearing up just as the U.N. Security Council--at long last--approved a cease-fire agreement...
...hindsight, The Crimson’s coverage of the e-mail leak had little impact beyond embarrassing the club’s members, and for that I’m sorry. Our student-run artillery piece of a newspaper is always learning how to aim better. But, ultimately, in a free society, the price of enjoying unfettered access to information is sometimes finding oneself in the crosshairs...
...Still, Fun Home's personal exegesis can read a little too much like a personal essay with illustrations, rather than a fully organic work of graphic literature. The author often insists on telling us about an event, with critical hindsight, in a running narration over the tops of panels that simply duplicate what you read. For example, in one scene Alison must help her father hang a mirror in her already over-decorated room. "I hate this room," she says in the panels. "When I grow up my house is going to be all metal, like a submarine." This says...