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...retrospect, it's difficult to reconcile these two courses in the same department. If the myths in Rudenstine's letter were dispelled by my fall course, they reached new heights in Marius' class. As I eventually discovered, good, effective instruction can be found in the department. That I had to spend an extra semester and one of my treasured electives to find it, though, is a comment on the structure of Expository Writing at Harvard. There are some serious difficulties not with the quality of specific teachers, but with the philosophy and structure of the program itself...
...retrospect, it is not too surprising that this former provost of Princeton announced in October 1991 that he was seeking a provost, an office which had been dormant since before Rudenstine himself was in college...
Littleboy, who was called at home and came directly over to the labs, said the fire department opened the street up again at about 9 a.m. after determining that there was no danger from the spill. "In retrospect, it was overkill, but they're super people," he said...
...Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights mollified moderates, it infuriated the professional civil rights establishment and made the President appear weak and incompetent. After a meeting with Guinier in the Oval Office, Clinton admitted, mortifyingly, "At the time of the nomination, I had not read her writings. In retrospect, I wish I had." The President and First Lady have been friends of Guinier's for 20 years. While claiming that he could not defend Guinier's positions, Clinton also insisted that many of them were distorted in the press. "This has nothing to do with the political center," the President...
...family, Hungarian Jews, became fugitives from Nazi persecution, living under assumed names and at times hiding out in a basement. Soros, his parents and his brother barely survived the war, only to see Hungary fall under the fist of the Soviet Union. It was a harrowing time, yet, in retrospect, a positive one for the young Soros. "Nineteen forty-four was the best year of my life," he maintains. "I was 14 when the world intruded on my life. I was old enough to be aware of what was happening, and young enough to be excited...