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...thought the debating style was interesting,” Li said after the debate. “Ours had more flourish...we had to get to the philosophical crux of the question. [The Republican side] just focused on the economics and the nitty-gritty of those numbers...
This is the very crux of the movie’s success: it demonstrates the incoherence and illogic of war from a soldier’s perspective. The Gunners themselves are familiar to us. Their early awkwardness in front of the camera is reminiscent of an eighteen-year-old asking for a first date. They live in the bombed-out pleasure palace of Uday Hussein, and if not for the uzis and the uniforms, some of the scenes almost evoke Animal House—pool parties, death metal T-shirts, rat chases around the cluttered floor of what looks like...
...brings us to the central issue of newcomers and guests, an issue which lies at the crux of The OC’s woes. Basically, there are three categories of newcomers in Orange County: a love interest for Ryan or Seth, a love interest for Marissa or Summer, and an older, random, and usually depraved woman connected to one of the main adult characters...
...It’s about the struggle for power and what it does to friendships,” Nye says of the book’s crux. “It shows what it’s like in Washington and the difficulty of keeping a moral compass...
...seeking to preserve, and carry forward the legacy ... of our beloved founder Chairman, Dhirubhai Ambani." A senior Reliance official close to Mukesh insists that he was not trying to extend his powers at Anil's expense but merely emphasizing that the chairman ran Reliance. Although the crux of the dispute appears to be Anil's growing conviction that he was being sidelined by his brother, conflict was exacerbated by turf wars. An Anil supporter says that Reliance Energy, the company headed by Anil, was promised that by 2006 it would receive natural gas from Reliance Industries that it needed...