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...they still don't get it. Yes, Cardinal Law has formally apologized. But his reckoning was carefully parsed. "In retrospect," Law said in his formal statement, the "response of the archdiocese to the grave evil...was flawed and inadequate." In retrospect? By what conceivable moral argument could ignoring child abuse be deemed at any time acceptable? "In retrospect," he also said, he had put children in danger, "albeit unintentionally." How can a church demand moral responsibility of its members if its leaders cannot do so when unmitigated evil is standing right in front of them...
...form—particularly Inspectah Deck and GZA—the chemistry is gone. In the chorus to “Uzi,” the crew chants “Y’all dudes is whack / Face it, the Wu is back,” but in retrospect, this sounds like a desperate plea from a lost beast...
...with their sleeves rolled up, ready to work, not with their hands out, ready to go on welfare.” However, Gingrich, who as speaker of the House championed the Welfare Reform Act that included the stricter eligibility laws, said last week that, “In retrospect, it was wrong.” Bush’s plan would reverse the excessive 10-year requirement and restore the five-year minimum in place before the “Republican Revolution?...
...more surprising and engaging. Rock stars above the age of 50 who have not made the artistic move to Vegas are few and far between, and Jagger is possibly the first to sing with authority about how a life of sex, drugs and rock and roll might feel in retrospect. And by god, he can still shake those hips and flap those lips...
...There was no reason to think that they would converge on the same molecular pathway, but in retrospect, it makes perfect sense. It turns out that certain aspects of the brain are simpler than we thought,” Weitz said...