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...unexpectedly then got a scholarship offer from Yale graduate school and actually flipped a coin to decide which to do. And the coin came out for literature.LD: I don’t’ believe the Almighty would approve of that. DD: I should have rather thought in retrospect that the person who would have decided by that means should have gone to Divinity school! THC: What do you both do when you’re not writing epic books or teaching? Any zany hobbies?DD: Do we do anything else? I do a lot of windsurfing. LD: When...
...retrospect, we would think that bubble money was not spent in the right way, and therefore we shouldn’t take the bubble money as the base from which we make cuts,” Government Professor Robert D. Putnam said, followed by a round of applause...
...razor-sharp guitars and a minor hit single, “How We Know,” paved the way two years later for the success of their third, and best, record, 2006’s “The Body, The Blood, The Machine.” In retrospect, that record seems a success more in spite of itself than anything else: the predictably facile “concept” of the album—a desperate romance in a post-apocalyptic dystopia—is kept at bay by irresistibly catchy tracks like “Here?...
...Well, it's not exactly straight from people who want to "protect marriage." The zombie-like figures in NOM storm ad are actually actors - whom in retrospect Gallagher might have some regret over hiring. Shortly after the NOM ad was released, the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights advocacy organization, got its hands on some of the characters' very watchable audition tapes. (The audition videos were a huge hit on YouTube, but were quickly removed due to copyright infringement...
...Botero tried to play conservatively in order to provide the space for Snow to make the big plays—but matters unraveled beyond their control. “It all happened too quickly. You don’t have time to think,” Scalise says in retrospect. “When you’re in a game, you just pretty much have to let it flow. If you think, you’re too late...