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...Khan had a secret life. In hindsight, there were some obvious tip-offs. Although still a civil servant in a poor country, he owned dozens of properties in Pakistan and Dubai and invested in a Timbuktu hotel, which he named after his wife. He donated $30 million to various Pakistani charities and had enough money left over to buy his staff members cars and pay for the university education of their children. He had an ego to match his newfound fortune: after paying to restore the tomb of Sultan Shahabuddin Ghauri, an Afghan who conquered Delhi, Khan...
...With hindsight, it's hard to understand why the scandal didn't come to light sooner. Parmalat never publicly explained why it needed to continue borrowing money when its accounts claimed it was sitting on billions of dollars in cash. Nobody appears to have asked whether Cubans really needed $1.3 billion worth of milk powder--enough to supply everyone on the island with 60 gallons a year--and why the powder was being shipped from Singapore, of all places. And nobody challenged a key discrepancy: the amount of debt disclosed on the firm's balance sheet was at odds...
...interview experience was fantastic in hindsight, but in the moment I was so nervous,” she said...
...hindsight--DEAR GOD! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!-- we clearly relied too much on 527s...
...He’s always known where he’s going, and it’s taken us a while to catch up to where he’s going,” Thomas says. “In hindsight we can see that, but in the moment it can seem like betrayal; it can seem incomprehensible because it’s not familiar. But that’s why he’s an artist, poet or whatever title you want to give...