Headlines have included "The war we lost – the lessons we didn't learn" and "Lessons from 1962 - India must never lower its guard".
With a continuous turnover of aid staff, work is quickly lost and lessons forgotten.
No need to persuade a friend to play or explain the boring rules, no hard feelings when someone won or lost, no lessons required, no costly equipment to badger my parents into buying.
Broken hearts, missed soul mates, lost opportunities, lessons that need learning: All the clichés that warm the heart (often while numbing the brain) are here.
In recognition of this month's 25-year anniversary of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska (March 24), this seems a good time to reflect on lessons learned, and lessons lost.
The party has a long history of picking a politician who has paid his dues on the campaign trail — losing, learning lessons and then running again.
But with reports that funding for children's social services is being cut in real terms by 4% in 2014-15, and with health, schools and probation services being churned up and disrupted, exciting innovation needs to be measured against the benefits of stability, coherence, sensible resourcing, and not losing the lessons from 40 years of child protection improvement.
A total of 475 area students will lose music lessons.
"It's not lessons learned, it's lessons lost," he said by telephone from New York.
