Before turning the page, United celebrated its past, one that included four league titles and several other trophies.
If they do, they will define themselves in opposition to America's future and, incidentally, to its past — one built by newcomers like the gold prospector from Canada who, in 1876, sailed on a ship around South America and staked a claim that became the town of Oracle.
League of Legends has often been criticized for playing it too safe, for failing to capitalize on its IP by expanding it past one game, and while the owners say that may be in the cards, for now, as it's been for years, League is just League.
By integrating the slogans of victorious Russian soldiers into its parliament building, Germany shows that it has learned essential lessons from its past (ones that the Russians themselves missed).
American diplomats said this language was central because it could allow them to argue, if Iraq balked at the arms inspections, that Baghdad's new violations compounded its past ones and nullified the cease-fire agreements that ended the Persian Gulf war in 1991.
This week, the New York Film Festival will screen two movies from the island nation, one from its past and one concerned with its current state.
Now, as it celebrates its 35th year, with a book to document its past and one eye on the future, it's clear that the 9 30 Club is no longer just a nightclub, but an American music institution.
Until EJI erected historical markers in 2013, Montgomery had 59 markers or monuments to the Confederacy, and not a single one to acknowledge its past as one of the biggest slave ports in America.
But there're other options too". In Sea Lots, a slum that now claims to be shedding its gang-ridden past, one community leader told me it was still hard for youngsters to get jobs because of the area's old reputation.
But while its recent story is one of success, momentum and forward thinking, its past is one of tentative steps and hesitant beginnings, where progress was measured in far smaller increments and output was determined as much by constraints as it was determination and ability.
Time has hopscotched over Pendleton, once a stopping-off point on the Oregon Trail that celebrates its past with one of the nation's biggest rodeos.
