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...Crux of the Problem
While Summers certainly identified the crux of the problem confronting the Divinity School, many say he was simply echoing what he heard from the faculty in his consultations...
Willis said that the “ambience” of a film served as the crux of his decision-making. Also, he said his key technique was “relativity,” which means shooting scenes “light to dark, big to small” to provide an eye-pleasing variation within single shots and across an entire film...
...crux of the problem lies in the fact that the findings of the two students are hardly extraordinary, and their process for exploiting the system would not be hard to duplicate. It may only have been a matter of time before someone stumbled upon the glitch, and the rumored ability of some computer science concentrators to procure free sodas from the vending machine in Maxwell-Dworkin Hall suggests that such hacking has already struck the Crimson Cash system...
...violated the crux of the agreement that we had—they said they would look into the summer situation,” he said, calling University President Lawrence H. Summers “a liar...