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Howell, who lines up opposite Sonkur, will have to if the Crimson secondary is to maintain the level at which it played last season. Butler, whom Harvard lost to graduation and Howell now replaces, was a first-team All-Ivy selection and the crux of an over-worked pass defense...
...that's really the interesting debate. I mean, you've hit upon the crux of whether or not the foreign policy of this Administration will work. Now, look, we went into Iraq because I felt, as a lot of other people did, Saddam was a threat and therefore had to be dealt with for short-term security. But the long-term strategy is for Iraq to be a democracy. It takes a while to get there, but I will tell you, the world has got to be somewhat heartened by the fact that now 10 million Afghan citizens have shown...
...Crimson submitted its own brief opposing Harvard’s motion, claiming that Harvard misunderstood the crux of the original argument. The brief reiterated that although Harvard remains a private institution, its individual officers may still act as governmental agents...
...Brahman from Kashmir, British-educated, brilliant, agnostic, a follower of Mohandas Gandhi, and with big dreams of modernizing his impoverished country. There's one difference: instead of going into politics, Bhagwan decides to transform India by becoming an industrialist to give his country the economy it deserves. The crux of the novel comes when the middle-aged industrialist, overworked and undersexed, meets Ma Durgeshwari, a holy woman with a pet tiger, and enjoys a reinvigorating bout of Tantric lovemaking with...
...Which brought the interview to the crux of Gardner?s beef against Kerry. Gardner-who remembers no important dates or times or locales-claims that Kerry once threatened him with a court martial. The incident happened when Gardner, who told me he had ?no trouble shooting gooks,? saw a Viet Cong guerilla with an AK-47 in a boat and started firing. ?I lay the hammer down on him,? Gardner explains. ?I just put a finger on the gun: boom, boom, boom, boom. He?s done. He got flipped out of the boat, he went straight down. That?s when...