Thank goodness that things are so different in Northern Ireland.DENNIS BONESNacogdoches, TexasSIR You say "NATO must set about disarming the Albanian guerrilla army with all the firmness and thoroughness it can muster" ("Cooling down Kosovo", June 26th).
NATO must set about disarming the Albanian guerrilla army with all the firmness and thoroughness it can muster.So far, some NATO units have looked too ready to stand by, while Albanian Kosovars took their revenge on those whose leaders, with the complicity of many ordinary Serbs, oppressed them.
We will apply all the necessary firmness and all the weight of the law".
In a letter of resignation to the IMF's board on May 18th he denied "with the greatest possible firmness all the allegations that have been made against me".
He has been muttering this with increasing firmness all the way from Brighton and, with seven years of familiarity with Ben's iron will, I know he means it.
In a book that pretends to be all about firmness, though, this is not a good excuse.
Inside, Villa Saraceno was all commodity, firmness and delight, easily conforming to those three architectural essentials: well built, beautiful, with intelligent and practical use of space.
"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in," begins its peroration, in the rhythmic, haunting succintness that marked Lincoln as an orator.
In his own words "With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds... ...... (From his second inaugural address) "Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery [to be allowed to continue], I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally".
Tricolons were Lincoln's rhetorical mainstay ("With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right").
