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...hundreds of them, Hatfields clustered around West Virginia towns like Belfry and Double Camp, McCoys settled in Pilgrim and Jamboree in Kentucky. Many still hunt (raccoons, squirrels) and gather (chestnuts, huckleberries), but they also watch cable TV and vacation in New Jersey. The feud is unequivocally over. All is forgiven. Forgotten? Not just yet. "Why, we're plain old Hatfields and McCoys," says one of the latter in a shrugging, boiler-plate disclaimer, "good friends and neighbors . . ." Yet after a reminiscence has meandered a while, and the truce reaffirmed again, the rote kindliness can give way to neat bursts...
...would have it, that Reagan last week consigned himself to being "a ten-month President." But there are memories of how small and not-so-small ineptitudes can accumulate, until one day the balance unexpectedly tips against a man. Lyndon Johnson through budget deficits and Viet Nam setbacks was forgiven a host of petty exaggerations, but he ultimately was standing in the credibility gap. Some vague suspicion about Jimmy Carter's competence hardened the day he embraced his troubled friend and Budget Director, Bert Lance. Carter's presidency was never quite the same after that...
...intention of [being the first to use] nuclear weapons. That rules out a pre-emptive strike. Why shouldn't the U.S. respond with a similar statement? Such a statement would do much to calm the very tense atmosphere and allay fear. None of us will be forgiven if nuclear weapons are ever used. We rule out the possibility of limited nuclear war. In a nuclear war, whether supposedly limited or unlimited, it will be difficult to tell the victor from the vanquished. We're not advocates of a strategy of preventive war, and we're not looking...
...attack on Thatcher's economics was led by former Prime Minister Edward Heath, who has never forgiven her for the humiliation she inflicted on him when she defeated him as party leader in 1975. Heath insisted that there was an alternative to monetarism: selective reflation and membership in the European Monetary System. Calling the unemployment rate "morally unjustified," he warned that similar disregard for working people in the 1930s had led to dictatorship and war in Europe. "We have now reached the most critical point...
...unconverted. Muslim fundamentalists who were not persuaded by Naipaul in person are not likely to be swayed by his narrative or, in fact, to read him at all. They are busy with a struggle that they think will lead to their salvation; their chosen enemies, Naipaul included, can be forgiven for regarding them with some enmity and considerable dread...