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Even the comedic third option that Nguyen should have complied with his first-round “strategy” of remaining ignorant of the draw easily comes to mind in the hindsight of a hotly-contested match...
Sure, it is easy to say in hindsight that he shouldn’t have put Fitzpatrick in for one series at the start of the second quarter and then in the middle of the third. Fitzpatrick had three turnovers—one fumble and two interceptions —in the fourth quarter alone as the Crimson stumbled to a costly 30-16 loss...
...High Horse,” becomes both cold and heartening in this context; it’s a statement of failure, but also of the possibilities admission of failure brings. On Chutes Too Narrow, the Shins prove that, though singing about heartbreak can be beautiful, wiser hindsight can make melodies just as well...
...conspiracy theories. He wrote controversial assessments dismissing those surrounding the J.F.K. and Martin Luther King Jr. assassinations. And the Berkeley-educated lawyer is adept at marshaling an unwieldy mass of information--most of his sources are other books and news stories--into a pattern made tidy and linear by hindsight. His indictment of U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement agencies covers well-trodden ground, though sometimes the might-have-beens and could-have-seens are stretched thin. The stuff that is going to spark hot debate is Chapter 19, an account--based on Zubaydah's claims as told to Posner...
...Continental Congress prepared to vote on the question of American independence in 1776, it appointed a committee for what would turn out, in hindsight, to be a momentous task, but one that at the time did not seem so important: drafting a declaration that explained the decision. It included Franklin, of course, and Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, as well as Connecticut merchant Roger Sherman and New York lawyer Robert Livingston...