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He made this claim during an interview with Fox & Friends on Sunday, after co-host Will Cain tried to portray the former president as merciful.

“She used to be very kind and merciful. She used to be very sweet with people like that.”

The merciful lack of damage gave them free range to make light of the quake, or ignore it altogether.

Harrison David Rivers’s merciful new drama, “The Salvagers,” is not a romance, but it emphatically is a love story: about a furious, heartsick young actor and his imperfect parents, steadfastly trying to help him heal.

The last week had marked a merciful hiatus in the region’s worst bloodshed in decades.