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...have screamed with pain, then started adjusting. Demand would have gone down, and today gas would probably be cheaper" [July 7]. How very clever. But Kinsley had a TIME pulpit in 2001. Why didn't he propose this great idea then? How easy it is to be clever in retrospect - though Kinsley seems less than confident in his own advice, saying gas would "probably" be cheaper. He ends by calling Americans idiots for not paying more for gas in the past. Could Kinsley himself be the idiot? Colin Segal, Sydney...
...many Europeans still see Iraq as the President's defining, and corrosive, legacy. Bush gave a startlingly wistful interview to the British newspaper The Times before embarking on his European trip, which took him to Slovenia, Germany, Italy, France and the United Kingdom. "I think that in retrospect I could have used a different tone [on Iraq], a different rhetoric," he said. By the time he ascended the podium at the London press conference, his mood had shifted. Asked if he had any regrets on Iraq he invoked, yet again, the ultimate arbiter. "History will judge the tactics," he said...
...hockey and men’s basketball games in the same weekend.I never thought that I would have the chance to have a one-on-one interview with a former Duke basketball player.Heck, I never thought I’d be a sportswriter—period.In retrospect, I guess it shouldn’t have come as a total surprise. I was that kid analyzing the box score after a Lakers game, keeping score during an Angels game, and compiling stat sheets for my high school volleyball team.Writing about it came fairly easily—I’d only...
Last week, W. Hugo Van Vuuren ’07 was dining at Ghana’s most expensive hotel, its lushness visible—until the lights went off. A humorous moment in retrospect, this is the reality in many parts of Africa, where even the continent’s most developed countries have consistent problems with lighting. Twenty-six percent of Africa’s population does not have access to electricity. Fortuitously, Van Vuuren was eating among the winners of the World Bank’s Lighting Africa Competition 2008. He is a member of a team...
...Brown said that the Chief of Police Francis D. Riley sent her a statement through Catalano Friday explaining that, in retrospect, an advisory should have been distributed more broadly to include all students, staff, and faculty...