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...same man physically or emotionally. And because the American presidency rests finally in his soul, the presidency will inexorably be changed. Though there has been more medical, physical and psychological speculation about Reagan in these past days than ever before, there is no way to chart the future. In hindsight it appears that John Kennedy's persistent back troubles sometimes plunged him into dark moods that were reflected in his grim assessments of Soviet power. Eisenhower's string of illnesses surely drained him of the vitality so essential in the presidency to press on against critics and adversaries. Many...
...hindsight it is very easy to explain how all of this occurred. Middle-schoolers now know how flawed was Europe’s system of interlocking alliances and how it made the escalation of conflict virtually inevitable. Similarly, anyone who has read Lenin’s political writings—most noticeably his schizophrenic diatribe “How to Organize Competition”—can see that the Communist terror in Russia did not come out of a vacuum; the leaders of the revolution did exactly what they said they were going to do, which...
...what has become an inevitable annual tradition, the flaws of the blocking system have again been subject to intense scrutiny. And while much of the criticism is leveled by those members of the Class of 2008 currently embroiled in the process, even upperclassmen favored with the gift of hindsight (most would likely agree that, in retrospect, blocking choices are far less monumentous than they seem at the time) can admit that the current procedure is far from perfect. But thusfar, reasonable solutions seem few and far between...
Invoking the cliché, “hindsight is always 20/20,” Zhuang said both professors wish they had foreseen the potential for an incident like this, and that the teaching staff will attempt to identify and coordinate with private tutors to prevent a similar occurrence in the future...
Advocates of public decency have a way of making themselves look foolish in the unforgiving, if often capricious, hindsight of the academy. And great works of literature have a way of offending public sensibilities. Note the many points of intersection between “banned books” lists and “great books” courses. Before Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, there is James Joyce’s Ulysses. Well before either come Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron, all of which were banned...