Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...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...
...it’s been twice as long—but there’s still no end in sight. The best course of action that the U.S. can take right now is to follow Spain’s example and get out of Iraq. Like Spain, in retrospect, we’ll be glad that we did. Justine R. Lescroart ’09 is an English and American literature and language concentrator in Quincy House, and is currently studying abroad in Granada, Spain. Her column appears on alternate Wednesdays...
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...
...realized he couldn’t breathe, and he was put down that evening after being “diagnosed” with cancer. It seemed strange to me that my dad—who battled his own cancer—was so distraught about a cat, but in retrospect it makes perfect if inexplicable sense.Have you ever seen “The Butterfly Effect?” With Ashton Kutcher? Yeah, me neither. That’s because when I went to see “The Butterfly Effect” with two friends my junior year in high...
...since then, he said, has a U.S. general played such an important role in the making of U.S. national-security strategy. "But," he added, "almost half the names that found their way to the Vietnam wall after that testimony found their way there when our leaders had acknowledged, in retrospect, that they knew the policy was not working...