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...retrospect it was unfortunate, because I think that white, black, and other students suffered as a consequence and didn't learn what they could've from each other...
...November 28: Rudenstine, suffering from severe fatigue, requests a medical leave of absence.I see in retrospect that I still thought I was 35 years old and could go three or four years without a vacation, Rudenstine said in 1996. Ive realized Im no longer 35 years old. The absence is closely covered by the national media and is featured on the cover of Newsweek. He returns 3 months later...
Some see these moves as steps toward a world full of nukes. But in retrospect what is striking is less the number of countries that have gone nuclear than the number that have not. And several, including South Africa, Brazil and Argentina, have even reversed course and abandoned once active weapons programs...
...funny how people have suggestions in retrospect," she says. "Sometimes people on council let petty differences get in the way and don't support projects they should...
This much had long been known from the Icelandic sagas, but until 1960 there was no proof of Leif's American sojourns. In retrospect, it is astonishing that the evidence took so long to be found. That year Norwegian explorer Helge Ingstad and his wife, archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad, went to Newfoundland to explore a place identified on an Icelandic map from the 1670s as "Promontorium Winlandiae," near the small fishing village of L'Anse aux Meadows, in the province's northern reaches. They were certain that it marked the location of an ancient Norse settlement...