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...medical examiner arrived, preventing an exact assessment of the time of death. They never obtained a warrant to search the Skakel home. And conflicts of interest abounded. It was (and is) the custom in Greenwich for off-duty policemen to work as bodyguards or chauffeurs for wealthy residents. "In retrospect, we probably treated the Skakels differently," a cop later admitted to author Timothy Dumas. "We did a little soft shoe, proceeded cautiously so as not to offend anyone...
...foot up through his leg - a difficult shot to make when a victim is standing. The officers, who have all pleaded innocent to the murder charge, claim the 22-year-old Guinean immigrant matched the description of a serial rapist and appeared to be pulling a gun. In retrospect, both perceptions were faulty; Diallo was unarmed...
...retrospect, it would have been smarter to have Kennedy mail in his endorsement. A Kennedy fills a room, not just casting a shadow but creating a total eclipse. At the Grover Cleveland Middle School in Dorchester, Mass., Kennedy packed the hall with labor leaders, party loyalists and other wildlife, then delivered a fire-and-brimstone endorsement speech that brought them leaping to their feet. Off his diet and about to bust every stitch of his too small blue suit, he was a great, sweaty, painted pumpkin, with a voice that raised the roof...
...retrospect, McCain claims that the lesson he learned from the Keating scandal was that in politics, appearances matter. Even if he hadn't done anything wrong, guilt by association was enough to ruin even his image. But it's hard to see that as the main lesson, given how careless he still is about appearances. He denounces big-spending special interests and yet accepts flights on corporate jets; he puts the speaker of the Arizona house of representatives on his campaign payroll despite a flurry of ethics charges around him; he neglects to recuse himself from debates about measures that...
...retrospect, it's certainly not offensive stuff, and incredibly easy to listen to. That said, there are some tracks that just don't quite work. The faint tribal chanting on "Congo" seems experimental for experiment's sake, and the guitars on "Throwing It All Away" are pretty, but the sentiment is a little overwrought, as are the lyrics overly-melodramatic to the point of banality on "Follow You, Follow Me." It seems as though the producers, probably under the urging of the current band members, were stretching to select tracks to fill a pre-determined quota. It might have been...