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...retrospect I wish I had given them hot chocolate,” he added...
...happens,” Welch laughed in retrospect. “Well, maybe not too often—I guess I was pretty antsy...
This is Mario Batali's moment. Often it's difficult to pinpoint the instant a man becomes a brand. Typically you can identify that moment in retrospect--for instance, if you look at the other stars in the food universe, you could argue that Lagasse became something larger, an uberversion of himself, nearly a decade ago, when his management team literally trademarked his expressions "BAM!" and "Kick it up a notch." You can also predict a branding; with her new magazine Every Day with Rachael Ray, the unnaturally perky Ray--who plays a flibbertigibbet on her show 30 Minute Meals...
...retrospect, the excruciatingly long periods of silence from Carroll's kidnappers may have been a positive sign. "It's been my experience that when you don't hear from them for a couple of months, they get released," said a former hostage negotiator who has worked in Iraq. He said missing the first deadline was a actually a good sign because "there does seem to be a trend that if you get held for a few months, either they get tired of holding you or work out a deal through the Iraqis." He mentioned that all of the journalists...
...retrospect, neoconservatives (and I fully include myself) made three huge errors. The first was to overestimate the competence of government, especially in very tricky areas like WMD intelligence. The shock of 9/11 provoked an overestimation of the risks we faced. And our fear forced errors into a deeply fallible system. When doubts were raised, they were far too swiftly dismissed. The result was the WMD intelligence debacle, something that did far more damage to the war's legitimacy and fate than many have yet absorbed...