As for the music — one of my colleagues, watching the video, first described it as "outtakes from a King Crimson session gone wrong," revising that, on reflection, to "a failed Yes side project".
Besides overseeing 582 students and 107 teachers, he is busy sorting out what went wrong, revising policies now regarded as outdated, and reassuring parents, students and teachers about how the crisis will affect a school community many see as an extension of their own families.
In isolation, there is nothing wrong with revising the synergies companies expect to squeeze from a deal.
At the end of one module, one lecturer told the students that they wouldn't go too far wrong if they revised the 1997 examination paper.
Unfortunately for us adults, our version of the schoolyard postmortems on a game gone wrong – which are revised and agreed there in a matter of minutes – becomes a months-or-years-long talkfest about round-robin rules, sporting ethics, authoritarian national coaching.
Maybe the gross domestic product numbers are wrong and will be revised upward in coming months, as government economists receive more data about the economy's condition.
Because the Houston group's trace of epsilon15 was initially wrong (they've now revised it to a version that agrees with the BPP-1 trace), the present authors need to be completely convincing.
Nor, when history proved him wrong, could he revise his views.
Seneca said in a statement on Tuesday that Blackstone's revised offer was "still the wrong price at the wrong time for the wrong reasons".
But if the C.P.A. inherited a war rather than a victory, the story of what went wrong after Firdos needs to be revised.
