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...Murphy said after that loss. “That missed extra point was huge,” Brown coach Phil Estes said. “You say to yourself ‘that will come back to haunt them.’” With 20-20 hindsight, that 24-22 loss to the Bears could be the difference-maker in terms of a Crimson Ivy championship repeat—though Brown’s loss to Yale Saturday affords Harvard a shot at a share of the title. But going into the home stretch of the Ivy schedule...
...activities of the day. Usui is pleasantly surprised that there were so many undecided voters, unlike at Harvard, where she feels everyone has already made up their minds. Though they both say that they enjoyed the experience, neither feels certain that her work would have any impact. In hindsight, Wenger wishes she had told some of the undecided voters about why she supported Obama...
...defined the free-love, footloose '60s and the avocados and vegetal yellows of the '70s, which style experts attribute to environmental empathy spawned by Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Precisely how these trends catch on has always been hazy; the trail of bread crumbs is typically detectable only in hindsight. But there's big business in forecasting the color of the moment. A DuPont survey found that 39% of prospective car buyers would buy a completely different brand if unable to obtain their color preference...
...were due for a stock-market smackdown. For 14 months debt markets have been stressed - and practically catatonic since mid-September. "Maybe it's a surprise, with 20/20 hindsight, that stocks held up as well as they did for as long as they did," says Bob Doll, chief investment officer for equities at BlackRock. "At the end of the day, lower-quality credit and stocks do have some things in common." The fear that has made investors shy away from all but the safest of debt finally moved on to the next logical step: fear of stocks, which inherently...
...limits of the long-suffering public's patience lie. This week, anger over the tainted-milk-powder scandal was palpable at one of Beijing's main Children's Hospitals, where hundreds of anxious parents were lined up with their toddlers waiting to see a doctor. "Enough with the hindsight," said private business owner Zhang Zaihua, 26. "Where were all those supervisors before this whole thing happened?" Zhang's 19-month-old daughter, who had been fed one of the brands on the government's blacklist of tainted products, had to undergo testing after traces of blood were found...