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...Although I was quite surprised to hear that Zev had just won a major multi-tiered regional surfing competition that included several professional surfers, in retrospect I shouldn’t have been,” he wrote in an e-mail. “Zev reminds us that it is possible to be a first-rate scientist, a first-rate athlete, and a down-to-earth person at the same time...
...Infantry Division crossed the border from Kuwait, Special Forces teams entered the Iraq. One of their primary missions was to establish the conditions and train fighters for a revolt in the Shia areas in the south of the country. But they failed to spark the anticipated revolt. In retrospect, it's easy to see why; the Shia have been burned before by what they thought were U.S. promises of support. A Shia rebellion against Saddam in the aftermath of the first Gulf War was brutally suppressed, and no one here, remembering the tens of thousands killed then, was willing...
...nightmarish—I’ve never been punished for anything. In other words, I’ve never had my heart broken. The one time that I was really betrayed in a relationship, I saw it as a story to tell my best friends and in retrospect the event has become more of a learning experience than an emotional moment of any significance in my life. (Plus, I got back at her a little by cutting off all communication and reading with delight her five e-mails begging and pleading me to respond...
...come in many forms. There are the easy calls. The attack on Pearl Harbor, the fall of the Berlin Wall--these are moments that the world builds monuments to or that we do individually, in our hearts and minds. Then there are the ones whose importance we understand in retrospect. You didn't mark it in your diary when benefits consultant Ted Benna devised the 401(k)? Neither did we. On the day in 1938 that oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia, the king was unimpressed because he had been hoping to find water. Then there are the days whose...
...retrospect, the damage was already done...