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...true crux of the schedule will begin on Dec. 16 when Harvard plays its first Ivy League contest at home against Dartmouth. Over the ensuing two months, the Crimson will face every Ivy team twice in the race for the League title...
While the king's madness is resolved, the play leaves open a host of insidious questions about leadership and its dissimulation. The crux of the play lies in the king's remark as he recovers his sanity: "I have remembered how to seem; that is the important thing." Sanity, for George III, involves maintaining a public persona. The king's dilemma, and the question that Bennett throws out at his audience, is where does a suitable public face begin and sanity...
...talk about the accident a bit and kind of her trials and tribulations going to junior high," Lang said. "The crux is going to be her enrolling in Harvard...
...position plunged him into a supremely complicated religious and political game. Throughout Europe the old order of divinely sanctioned kingdoms was battling models of popular sovereignty and citizenship inspired by the Enlightenment, the French Revolution and the adolescent U.S. The Italian peninsula was a crux of this struggle. The Pope himself was a monarch, ruler of the states girdling the boot approximately from Naples to Venice, playing survival politics amid what historian Kertzer describes as "a patchwork of duchies, grand duchy, Bourbon and Savoyard kingdoms [and] Austrian outposts." Would-be nation builders plotted Italy's unification from the south...
Despite his testimonial, there is no evidence to support that moderation works--or, for that matter, doesn't work. Medical studies have consistently shown that abstinence for alcoholics can lead to improved health and a longer life-span. But those findings don't address the crux of the matter: Are all problem drinkers alcoholics? Related to that is another question: Are problem drinkers more likely to fail at moderation or abstinence...