Word: retrospective
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...retrospect, we got too far ahead of ourselves. And so now the baseball gods have humbled us on account of our hubris. We dared to tempt fate, believing that the Sox might finally cast off the cursed mantle of 82 years of futility. But alas, our pride was found to be in excess and we were struck down in the sight of our enemies, namely the ever-loathsome front-runners who hail from the Bronx...
...retrospect, you had to see it coming. The Australians had boasted for years that the 2000 Olympics would be "the cleanest Games ever" and that they were going to test athletes on an even more stringent standard than the ones the IOC usually uses...
...behind bars, you almost have to catch them in the act of forking over secrets. But in the Los Alamos case, the damage was already done, and so agents had to find a way to "walk the cat back," as they like to say, and prove the crime in retrospect. That makes spy catching even harder, but the FBI didn't do itself any favors. Bureau sources concede that when the probe was opened in May 1996, it was left to second-string agents. "It was dumb and dumber," says a bureau veteran. "They put the wrong people to investigate...
...behind bars, you almost have to catch them in the act of forking over secrets. But in the Los Alamos case, the damage was already done, and so agents had to find a way to "walk the cat back," as they like to say, and prove the crime in retrospect. That makes spy catching even harder, but the FBI didn't do itself any favors. Bureau sources concede that when the probe was opened in May 1996, it was left to second-string agents. "It was dumb and dumber," says a bureau veteran. "They put the wrong people to investigate...
...easy to say, in retrospect, that the admission that the authorities lacked the evidence to convict should have served as an alarm bell to editors, but the rush to publish - and the implication by the guardians of the nation's security that the national interest had been imperiled - may have drowned those out. So the net effect of the initial reporting of the case throughout the national press was to create a separate media courtroom in which hooded accusers were free to damn Lee without fear, even, of rigorous cross-examination...