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...revised that stance. Thanks to John's Second Vatican Council, Mass was now in English and the priest and congregation interacted. In retrospect, she thinks this may have kept her in the church. But in that year John's successor and the council's inheritor, Paul VI, loosed a thunderbolt: Catholics could not use artificial means of birth control and remain in good graces. "No way," says Betty. "No how. Period...
...working scientists, who by then were itching to explore previously unattainable secrets of life. Happily, the proposals to control recombinant-DNA research through legislation never got close to enactment. And when anti-DNA doomsday scenarios failed to materialize, even the modestly restrictive governmental regulations began to wither away. In retrospect, recombinant-DNA may rank as the safest revolutionary technology ever developed. To my knowledge, not one fatality, much less illness, has been caused by a genetically manipulated organism...
...Washington--except that Clinton was always ahead. Clinton was at Georgetown when Starr was at George Washington University; Clinton was a Senate aide when Starr was a House aide; Clinton landed a Rhodes scholarship, Starr missed a Marshall. "So there were sort of remarkable and I guess, in retrospect, noteworthy coincidences of activity," says Starr, "although he went on in a much more distinguished...
...dramatic. It might not even be recognizable for a long while; turning points often stand out clearly only in retrospect. But with all those caveats, it looks as if the global financial crisis is passing a rather modest turning point. At least it has stopped getting worse, and it may be contained in Asia rather than spread to other regions of the globe. As one happy result, odds favor the U.S. economy's getting through 1999 with nothing worse than a slowdown in growth--not the recession very recently feared...
...College Harry R. Lewis '68 convinced me that there was really nothing I could do to change his mind about student delegates to that committee. And so I prioritized. Keycard access got moved up a notch on the list. Ad Board reform dropped off. I think, in retrospect, that this may have been a mistake. There is a good argument to be made that more important than delivering results is engaging students in discussion...