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Taken in by an American family in 1980, Arn Chorn is now 22 and a college student in Rhode Island. He understands in retrospect that he was brainwashed into becoming a Khmer Rouge. Yet he also remembers how thrillingly fright and excitement mixed. He can still describe the sweaty terror before an attack, squatting in the reeds, trembling. Then the fear metabolized into adrenaline, enhanced by the delight of pumping an automatic rifle. "Sometimes," he says, "you enjoy yourself in battle...
...solution, in retrospect, was simple. "If you start with a hang-glider- size plane and triple its size up to a 90-ft. wingspan while keeping its weight the same," MacCready explains, "the power needed to fly it goes down by a factor of three" -- to only about 0.4 horsepower, in fact, which a trained cyclist can generate for many minutes at a time...
...retrospect, however, Rice says she has no feelings, "positive or negative," about the departing president-beyond a general sense that he was never receptive to the ideas of her companions...
During my four years at Harvard, I have often had to choose between having a more rewarding academic experience and possibly having a higher GPA, and in retrospect, I do not regret having risked my GPA. As a first-year student, I opted for Advanced Standing. During my sophomore year, I chose to take Government 1061, an upperlevel bypass taught by the notorious Thompson Professor of Government Harvey C. ("C-") Mansfield and Professor of Government Michael Sandel, rather than the dismally rated Government...
...essential to have a new relationship with the Russians, have a new relationship with the Chinese, and I felt that at that time, early on, it would have made it difficult, almost impossible, to develop that new relationship had we declared war. It would have broken it off. In retrospect, I don't think so. In retrospect, I think we could have done it. And it may have been a mistake of judgment, but at the time, that's the reason I didn...