Word: regrets
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...that I take absolutely no responsibility. My huge disappointment is that it’s not as if my team and others who were still in the department had not anticipated there might be a time when the state and local resources are overwhelmed by a catastrophic event. I regret, frankly that I wasn’t in charge because I think we would have done things differently. Procedures and protocols are not sexy stuff, but there are certain operational structures that we built to handle precisely that kind of event that were either ignored or deployed later than...
...contract between writer and reader in which the reader agrees to keep reading as long as the writer produces satisfying work. McCall Smith said that he accepts this obligation. “It considerably constricts my freedom of action, but in a way that I don’t regret,” he said. Several audience members said that they enjoyed McCall-Smith’s musings. “I found him hilarious and captivating,” said attendee Anne Banhill. “It was an entertaining, witty and deeply philosophical meditation on a subject...
...students to join the military, the university has done the exact opposite. In fact, then-Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan wrote in 2005 that she felt that the military’s access to Harvard’s Office of Career Services was unacceptable. “I regret making this exception to our antidiscrimination policy,” she said when the Law School was forced to give military recruiters the same access that investment banks and consulting firms have to OCS or lose federal funding...
...tragedy of migrants ... dying is a horrible regret of any action which has that outcome." - on the criticism that Operation Gatekeeper pushed migrants deeper into the desert, where they were more easily susceptible to dehydration and death, (San Diego Union-Tribune, June...
Talk to people not just about how they feel but about how they're living now, and you hear more resolve than regret. Nearly half say their economic status declined this year, and 57% now think the American Dream is harder to achieve. And yet pain and promise are a package deal; even after all this, fully 56% believe that America's best days are ahead. It would be nice if it took something short of a heart attack to get us to work out, eat better and spend more time with our kids. But in the end, where...