Word: historians
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Grand Coalition. Historian A.J.P. Taylor, a longtime Labor supporter, is more optimistic; he believes that Britain will eventually rouse itself to master this crisis, just as it has others. He argues that so far-despite gloomy economic statistics-most Britons have maintained their living standard. As more begin to feel the pinch and are convinced that "national unity will produce results," national unity will appear, most likely in the form of a coalition government. Indeed, there is increasing talk about the possibility of a coalition Cabinet. Tories and Liberals have already indicated that they are prepared to join one. Labor...
These concessions may not be enough. With their newly discovered North Sea oil bonanza, a growing number of Scots feel that they will soon have the economic base to separate from England. Observes John P. Mackintosh, Scottish historian and Labor Party candidate from Berwick and East Lothian: "When you look at the performances of the government in London, what is there to be proud of? What are you left to cling to? We could hardly do worse...
...Nixon has not forgiven himself," observes Maryknoll Priest-Psychologist Eugene Kennedy. "He has not admitted that he is capable of evil, that he has hurt countless persons. Forgiveness is a tough existential transition." Divine forgiveness is the model for human pardon, notes Church Historian Martin Marty, a Lutheran, and involves "an annihilation of what the sinner was. God completely wipes the slate clean. But that only happens if there is repentance, an about-face, a 180° turn. There is no evidence that the former President is doing anything of the kind." Nixon's attitude, complains Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, president...
Mercy cannot survive without justice; life would be so unpredictable, so full of anxiety, that the gentler virtues would probably disappear. "One cannot constantly turn the other cheek," warns Religious Historian Sydney Ahlstrom of Yale. "A country that doesn't want to live in chaos has to establish a tradition of law." While the Bible extols mercy, it also demands justice and honors those who seek it?those who, in the words of the Sermon on the Mount, "hunger and thirst for righteousness." If every wrongdoer deserved unlimited mercy, police could not arrest murderers, district attorneys could not prosecute slumlords...
...dealt a devastating blow to the idea that the poorest citizen is equal to a President-or former President -under the laws. "There is the obvious anomaly of punishing people who were working on Nixon's behalf or on Nixon's orders, yet not punishing Nixon," concurred Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. "It seems to be an act which can only suggest that we do have a double standard of justice in the U.S.-that the President is indeed above...