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...retrospect, though, I should have seen it coming...
...mail recipients, says he had brushed off the threat until he got a call on Dec. 14 from Prof. George: Nava had been assaulted and was at the University Medical Center. At the hospital, Nava explained his story. "He described to us, in really creepy detail in retrospect, how it supposedly happened," Gergis recalled. "He said, 'Their breath was so distinctive; if I could only smell everybody's breath, I would be able to pick them out.'" George added that they had no reason to doubt Nava's story. Nava, he said, was a residential college adviser, Religious Life Council...
Worrywarts have been saying such things since the mid-1980s without much to show for it. But something changed after 2001, when what had been a long and in retrospect moderate rise in indebtedness exploded into a spectacular binge in mortgage and home-equity lending. It started with super-low interest rates that kept consumer spending rising even as the tech boom of the late 1990s collapsed. But before long, the mortgage boom took on a life of its own, with ever bigger and weirder loans handed out to people who would be able to pay them back only...
...that a warning for Harvard women this weekend. But how about naming the school after Elihu Yale, on whose tombstone it is written, “Much good, some ill, he did; so hope all’s even.” If only it were all even. In retrospect, these were poor decisions. But, though modern Yale suffers from mistakes made throughout its history, no one has ever learned from them, and thus they haven’t stopped. Consider Yale’s most recent big mistake—not ending early action. We hope their admissions office...
Zornow says that after a few weeks of lessons from a shifty Sam Ash salesman who charged 50 bucks an hour and, in retrospect, “didn’t know how to scratch,” he turned to instructional videos to hone his skills...