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...however. George Washington pardoned those who participated in the so-called Whiskey Rebellion in 1794, and Abraham Lincoln offered forgiveness to lower-ranking members of the Confederacy in December 1863. That, of course, was 16 months before the end of the Civil War, and could be read as a shrewd tactical encouragement of defections. But Lincoln's successor, Andrew Johnson, extended the clemency to the South after the war, over the opposition of the Radical Republicans, as a way of bringing a divided nation back together. More to the point -and a better precedent for today's proponents...
...Killing of Richard III, Robert Farrington is something of a Richardist but more of an entertainer. His hero-modern, brisk, amused-is James Bond in a baldric, a lewd, shrewd "clerk" who undertakes secret missions for the king. Seen through his eyes, Richard comes off as a reasonably decent Renaissance statesman, astute in the chancellery but stupid in the field...
...high school graduates. Mrs. Waddles and her ten children, who range in age from 19 to 44, spend most of their time at the mission aiding an average of 75 families a day. An ordained nondenominational minister, she goes about her works with a Christian devotion tempered by shrewd ghetto sensibilities. "I don't preach," she explains, "but if they ask for a message they got something coming." They also get food and clothing for a pittance if they have it, for nothing if they...
Take a coke-snorting smuggler, a crooked Army quartermaster, a deceptively dippy hooker and a smooth-talking expert in alarm systems. Add a bank, ultramodern European and defiantly burglarproof. The hooker is greedy, the alarms expert larcenous and the bank eminently susceptible to a shrewd variation on the Trojan-horse tactic...
Super Dilemma. The domestic ramifications of the situation are not lost on the Arabs. In an interview with TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott in Cairo last week, Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad, a shrewd and seasoned diplomat, professed to be confused. "It is something we cannot understand-how a superpower wild certain responsibilities about peace in the world can be affected by some votes in an election. We don't understand how it is commonly accepted that the Jews are a community completely separate from other Americans, as if their loyalty is to Israel rather than to their own country...