Word: hindsighted
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...unmanaged agenda items is the on-again, off-again effort to build what George Bush termed, apparently without thinking the idea through, a new world order. Why is it so difficult? A precedent occurred not that long ago. One reason men like Roosevelt are such towering figures in hindsight is that they won a peace as well as a war. They were like demiurges, already prepared to re-create the world almost de novo, with initiatives for such global institutions as the United Nations, the Bretton Woods international financial regime and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Conferences...
...novel Orlando, inspired by Woolf's love for Vita Sackville-West, is a gay lark disguised as a historical biography. Centuries and genders fly past, each one bending like a willow to accommodate Woolf's puckish feminist insight and hindsight. Potter's movie, faithful in spirit to the book, is something else. It is, in the best sense, a travesty, a masquerade, a cross-dressing comedy of eros. Yet moviegoers do believe in Orlando, in the breadth of its canvas, the immediacy of its emotions, the palliative power of its wit. They can swim in its gorgeous images: the fruit...
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...scholar John Hart Ely explains in a forthcoming book on this subject, restoring the war power is no special favor to the Legislative Branch. "The legislative surrender was a self-interested one: accountability is pretty frightening stuff." It's been too easy for members of Congress to play the hindsight game, supporting military adventures that turn out well and blaming the President for ones that turn out badly...
...hindsight, Clinton's campaign risks-appearing on MTV, playing the sax on Arsenio Hall--should be seen as masterful packaging. And to some extent, that kind of imagery still matters. The Clintonites believe that the young felt ignored by Reagan/Bush. If they're right, symbolic efforts to include young people could inspire confidence as much as any policy--and symbolism doesn't add to the budget deficit...