Word: regretful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...faculty members expressed regret at his departure as dean...
...subsequent outcry substantially weakened relations between Harvard and the city of Boston. President Rudenstine said his handling of the Allston purchase was his greatest regret of his presidency, according to The Boston Globe...
...Charlie's Angels, starring and produced by Green's real-life girlfriend Drew Barrymore. Deals are also set for him to remake Roberto Benigni's Italian comedy The Monster and to co-write an original script. Off-camera, Green is less frantic, more witty, but still weird. He expresses regret that doctors wouldn't allow him to take his excised testicle home. "I really did want to keep it," he says. "They told me they needed to do further testing, but I'm sure it will soon be a hot-ticket item on eBay...
...campaign trail, baseball is a touchstone. Asked to name a hero, he names Ryan, who played for the Texas Rangers when Bush was the team's co-owner. The toughest challenge the Governor has faced? Firing manager Bobby Valentine. What mistake does he most regret? Trading hitting superstar Sammy Sosa to the Cubs, he said during the primaries, only half in jest. He cites his Rangers experience because it is when his professional career first flowered. "His relationship with the game gives you a big window into what he is all about," says Tom Scheiffer, the Rangers' current managing partner...
...when I get home is plop down in front of the TV set and let my brain go blank. You probably know the feeling. But if two groups of neurologists--from University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio--are right, we may all live to regret our tube-trolling ways. At a meeting of the American Academy of Neurology last week, they reported that people who remain active outside of work by taking up such stimulating activities as painting, gardening or playing a musical instrument are three times less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease as they...