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...curiosity early. Every year at my elementary school we would watch a movie about how we would live in the far future of the 1990s: the cars would be compact and efficient and would drive themselves; music would involve not just sound but holographic light displays as well. (In retrospect, this was a pungently 1970s view of the future: we would all ride our hyperintelligent Pintos to Laser Floyd shows...
...retrospect, Trombly said he thought the case against his attacker had been airtight—though he felt a conviction had been by no means certain...
Verba grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., and attended James Madison High School. Senior year he decided to attend Harvard over Princeton, a choice he in retrospect calls “the smartest thing I ever...
...October 2000, and the identification of Attash as the operational commander, the CIA realized that the Malaysia meeting was more significant than had been previously thought and began looking for Attash and others who had been there. The agency assumed the meeting had been about the Cole plot. In retrospect, some officials speculate the presence of two 9/11 hijackers means the Atta plan was also discussed...
Tragically, most of these slaughters are only visible in retrospect due to the opacity and isolation of these regimes during their rule. Thus, we should be watchful for contemporary states that are masking dangerous usurpations of political power, such as in Venezuela, Zimbabwe, China, Turkmenistan, Sudan and Mauritania, to name a few. Recent regimes in Uganda, Burundi and Indonesia have murdered hundreds of thousands of their own citizens...