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...Furthermore, the lawyers involved were always clear about the percentage of the settlement they would receive if they won the case. No one has alleged that the lawyers defrauded the states, only that the compensation agreed to in advance by both the lawyers and the states now seems, in retrospect, excessive...
...such forecasts of the future are told only in retrospect. Nostradamus wrote in 1555: "Beasts wild with hunger will cross the rivers/The greater part of the battle will be against Hister/He will cause great men to be dragged in a cage of iron/When the son of Germania obeys no law." But nobody stepped forth to warn Germans to be on guard against somebody named Hister or Hitler or something along those lines. It was only after Hitler's Germany had devastated Europe that students of prognostication noticed the references to "Hister" and "Germania" and credited Nostradamus with foreknowledge of World...
...back to say he regrets the, er, "unfortunate phraseology, which in retrospect I should have done differently." Greenspan assured the U.S. Senate last week he really does think the economy is turning, if maybe not so fast as the markets seem to think. And that sounds about right - as long as you keep the emphasis on the not so fast...
...long way, in my growth as a person, from where I was my first reading period, eating Double Decker Pizza Ring on the first floor of Hollis Hall. I hope, starting this reading period, to see what I have really learned--even if I can only see it in retrospect...
...retrospect, now that we've won, I'm glad the games were so hard, because they've made us a better team...