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...retrospect, it was a mistake to chase the two men out of Sudan. In the mountains and caves of Afghanistan, they were newly safe from prying eyes. In 1998 came the attacks on the U.S. embassies in East Africa, for which al-Zawahiri, like bin Laden, was later indicted in New York City. That attack also set off a U.S.-led manhunt throughout the world in which dozens of members of Al Jihad were arrested and extradited to Egypt, further crippling the organization's infrastructure. The besieged group split into two factions. One side angrily denounced al-Zawahiri for dragging...
...Caribbean writer. "Nothing was made in Trinidad," he said; but in a deeper sense, a number of his own books were, and what made them was the unappeasable desire to see the world as a release from what he believed to be his stunted and provincial origins. In retrospect, he despised Trinidad so much that he couldn't bring himself to mention it in his thank-you remarks on learning he'd won the Nobel. "It is a great tribute," he announced in measured terms, through his publisher, "to both England, my home, and to India, home of my ancestors...
...Lowell’s successor, James B. Conant ’14, pomp and circumstance was not a priority, with war on the horizon and an upcoming Tercentenary Celebration. Instead, Conant selected the Faculty Room of University Hall for his installation. Only 150 people attended. In retrospect, Conant’s secretary, Jerome Greene, maintained that the famed 1935 Tercentenary Celebration, with its audience of 15,000, was Conant’s true inauguration...
...hijackers achieved stealth by design and happenstance. For one thing, they lived quiet lives. They resided in low-rent, out-of-the-way neighborhoods and often wore the bland American uniform: khakis and polos. What was striking about many of them, in retrospect, is that there was nothing striking about them. "It amazes me how ordinary these guys looked, yet they ended up being involved in probably the greatest crime in American history," says Corey Moore, assistant manager of Gold's Gym in Greenbelt, Md., where five of the hijackers worked...
American presidents Carter, Clinton, and Bush Sr., as well as Kissinger and others, had taken the desperate issues of the Middle East seriously. President Clinton tried especially hard in the waning days of his presidency to bring the feuding sides together. He had nearly succeeded. In retrospect it seems such a shame that he had not had a little more time. This disaster could well have been avoided...