Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...freely admit that the growth of Hamas was partly a tragedy of their own making. Israel made a conscious decision to allow the Islamist movement to grow in the West Bank and Gaza in the early 1980s, hoping that this would undermine support for Yasser Arafat's PLO. "In retrospect we made a mistake," former Defense Minister Benjamin Ben Eliezer told the daily Maariv last week...
Thankfully, I made the right decision, and in retrospect I should have sought help a long time ago. But it is a decision that, tragically, some students never make. Many of us pride ourselves on self-sufficiency. We didn’t get to Harvard having to ask for directions; we’re resourceful, we’re clever and—most importantly—we’re stubborn. It’s what gave us that edge over our classmates, but today it’s often the greatest impediment to our success...
Although some touches in the film seem odd upon the first viewing, in retrospect they work perfectly as a whole. Lacuna’s office and machines seem low-key and delightfully sketchy enough to be run by The Simpson’s Dr. Nick. However, this location makes it possible for them to engage in their necessarily secretive and presumably illegal procedures. How does Joel run through his memories? Gondry portrays with visual innovation the rather trite idea that love can override all boundaries...
...enough for my parents to worry, as they told us countless times, that our brains were turning to mush. Once when my mother came home from a long day at work and found us vegged out in front of the tube, she broke down in exasperated tears. In retrospect, this seems exceedingly dramatic. Was there really something so wrong with “Darkwing Duck” and “3-2-1 Contact...
TIME: You've been criticized for disbanding Iraq's army. In retrospect, do you consider that a mistake...