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...retrospect, my time away was at times difficult, frustrating, and lonely. Yet, it allowed me to discover what I’m most passionate about, and what I truly strive...
...retrospect, the timing of my barefoot-running experiment - in New York City, in January, in the middle of one of the worst cold snaps in memory - may not have been ideal. But I was willing to risk toe frostbite to find out why a growing number of trainers and scientists believe that ditching cushioned soles might be the best way to protect joggers against chronic injuries...
...blew it before the crisis. This is true. Bernanke had no idea the financial system was in danger, and some of his comments look painfully ridiculous in retrospect. That said, he had a lot of company on the Clueless Express, and it's not clear how much his cluelessness drove the crisis. Bernanke makes a convincing case that the remarkably loose monetary policies he supported under his predecessor, Alan Greenspan, did not create the housing bubble; it's amusing to see longtime Greenspan fanboys like John McCain trashing Bernanke for insufficient foresight. And while the Fed should have provided stronger...
...unexpected,” she says in retrospect...
Looking back at the awards season of 1998-99, it's hard not to feel some chagrin. That was the year Roberto Benigni did his clown's leap to the stage to pick up his Best Actor Oscar, but in retrospect, the issue isn't that Benigni beat out Nick Nolte, Edward Norton, Ian McKellen and Tom Hanks for the award; it's that Jeff Bridges wasn't even nominated. His deft, hilarious, thrillingly perfect performance as Jeffrey Lebowski, a.k.a. the Dude, in the Coen brothers' genius film The Big Lebowski should have been showered with prizes. Instead, the only...