Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Last week, W. Hugo Van Vuuren ’07 was dining at Ghana’s most expensive hotel, its lushness visible—until the lights went off. A humorous moment in retrospect, this is the reality in many parts of Africa, where even the continent’s most developed countries have consistent problems with lighting. Twenty-six percent of Africa’s population does not have access to electricity. Fortuitously, Van Vuuren was eating among the winners of the World Bank’s Lighting Africa Competition 2008. He is a member of a team...
...Brown said that the Chief of Police Francis D. Riley sent her a statement through Catalano Friday explaining that, in retrospect, an advisory should have been distributed more broadly to include all students, staff, and faculty...
...that her husband's charitable foundation was private and didn't have to release the names of its donors. "Yet the foundation sold the donor list, 38,000 names," Stephanopoulos pointed out. Clinton said she didn't "know anything about that. You'd have to ask the foundation." In retrospect, it was easy to see that Clinton was desperate, willing to say almost anything to get over. At the time, she just seemed strong, certainly stronger than Obama on Meet the Press ... at least she did to me and many members of my chattering tribe. And our knee-jerk reactions...
...there anything you feel you could have done while you were in Congress but didn't? -Abe Weiss, Monsey, N.Y.In retrospect, I probably would have created a very intensive training program [on] how to be a majoritarian Republican solving problems. That was a huge mistake, and it led to the collapse of 2006 because you had the party over the past six years reverting to a Republican Party which is incapable of being in the majority...
...scene where I found myself actually standing in front of a vase of flowers in a dress with Jack ripping it down my back,” he said.Despite the embarrassment he felt at the time, Conrad said that he found this experience rewarding.“In retrospect it was a great experience—challenging, extreme, completely compromising,” he said. “At that moment I was intellectually engaged with trying to resolve ideas of what was to become minimalism at a later point. And there I was standing there with a dress ripped...