Word: revisitations
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...Maggie obviously wears her history lightly. Not so her boss, Lawrence Brahm, a 41-year-old American hotelier and restaurateur who's founded a miniempire by excavating the bad old days, giving them glamour and letting people revisit them?for a tidy price. Brahm owns Jiang's limo and a treasure trove of other Communist Party artifacts. They decorate his restaurant, the Red Capital Club, and his boutique hotel, the Red Capital Residence, both housed in 200-year-old courtyard compounds in Beijing's Dongcheng district. Brahm has seized upon a romanticized notion of China at the cusp of revolution...
...Faculty is scheduled to debate preregistration but will not vote up or down on the proposal at that meeting. It may, however, decide to revisit the issue for a vote at a later meeting...
...Senate for an appeals-court seat in New Orleans. The conservative Mississippi judge, strongly backed by Senator Trent Lott, was nominated last year but blocked by Democrats over questions about his civil-rights record, including a 1959 law-review article he wrote opposing interracial marriage. Why would President Bush revisit that battle so soon after Lott resigned as majority leader over racially loaded remarks, particularly knowing the other side is likely to block it with a filibuster...
...rapprochement by test-firing missiles over Japan; but the U.S. and its allies also failed to deliver on the promised energy assistance. Now, North Korean brinkmanship has put both sides have found themselves back on the path to a confrontation neither can afford, which has forced them to revisit their agreement...
...public, along with a memo from a Phoenix agent who had noted a pattern of Arab men signing up at flight schools, Mueller still insisted that the FBI could not have done anything to limit or prevent the destruction. Only after Rowley's memo was made public did Mueller revisit his assessment, with a feeble double negative: "I cannot say for sure that there wasn't a possibility we could have come across some lead that would have led us to the hijackers...