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...TIME.com: For the uninitiated, can you quickly describe the crux of the writers? complaints...
...concept of bashert, Jewish destiny, lies at the crux of the action of Paradise Park, the new novel by Allegra Goodman '89. And as Sharon Spiegelman, the novel's narrator, declares, "Bashert was here to stay." The novel tracks Sharon from the 1970s to the present, as she fleetingly adopts different lifestyles. Sharon tries to find her niche in almost every spiritual institution imaginable, from the Greater Love Salvation Church to a marijuana farm in Hawaii, from the Consciousness Meditation Center to the Torah-Or Institute in Jerusalem. The object of Sharon's quest throughout all of her divergent spiritual...
...while the SCOTUS opinion did little to clarify the various rights and responsibilities of parents and prosecutors, it did identify one crux of the argument: Actively refusing available medical treatment for yourself is one thing, but presuming to impose your beliefs on another person - especially if that person is a child who may not have formed any religious beliefs at all - is something altogether different...
...said that the crux of patent law is deciding whether a discovery "amounts to a protectable invention or useful device." In the case of genetic research, scientists sometimes apply when they have discovered "an existing aspect of nature" in which case a patent would not apply...
...your classmates caught in the crux of such a decision, take some time out and visit the career fair. Certainly, some students come to Harvard already interested in business, but that doesn't explain the legions of seniors who are dying to convince the McKinsey interviewer that they want nothing more out of life than to determine the market demand for riding lawnmowers in Belize--certainly I can't imagine that too many of us put that on the "career interests" section of our college applications. Nevertheless, each autumn, many seniors come to the realization that Belize's horticultural tendencies...