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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...
...writes a lot about women, with emotion as honest as Merle Haggard's but a bit more realistic. Austin men are not suicidal; when a woman leaves, they survive. Michael Murphey is the most articulate lyricist. His new album contains a tune called Holy Roller, a tongue-in-cheek paean to Bible Belt religion that obliquely speaks to the question of loss of faith. Without doubt, the quintessential country rocker is Jerry Jeff Walker. His songs tend to be unpretentious autobiographical celebrations. For Jerry Jeff, life is "running naked in that high-hill country rain," and his spontaneity...
...team that is not winning will have to settle for a peck on the cheek now and then. Take Harvard's basketball squad, for example. The dingy old court on the top floor of the Indoor Athletic Building draws about as many spectators in a season as Maryland will get for a single game...
...something below. Left-wing kibitzers in the studio audience? No, Buckley's target was his King Charles spaniel Rowley, which he had brought to the studio. Showing that he bore no ill will, Rowley then jumped into Buckley's .lap and planted a slurpy kiss on his cheek. All of which left Hentoff with somewhat more of an interview than he had expected. Said the show's producer later, "You can hear barking on the tape...
...large three-year-old St. Bernard, looked on. Di Franco leaned down to pat the dog's head. Without warning, the animal leaped forward and Di Franco felt his face gripped between Ferdinand's powerful, crushing jaws as his pet tore a long gash in his right cheek that took scores of stitches to repair...