This is not only a time for analysis and retrospection but a time for action.

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His performance lifts the movie to the top of the rueful-retrospection class.

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NATO's decision to bomb the Serbs out of Kosovo were not prompting retrospection among the anniversary-minded, thoughts would anyway be turning towards that luckless corner of the Balkans.

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But if you were to apply retrospection you would have to draw a line somewhere, and wherever you drew that line, there would be some people who came the wrong side of it and what would you say to them?

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