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...these inconsistencies have yet to faze Clinton. The motor-voter bill, which would dramatically increase access to voter registration, will likely be signed into law in the near future. The bill has been central to Rock the Vote and is expected to increase turnout among young eligible voters. The crux of the administration's youth initiative, though, is the National Service Trust Fund, a domestic peace corps which would forgive college loan debts in return for community service...
...second sequence, "Crux of Radiance," continues to develop the religious overtone of the book, grappling with the Judeo-Christian tradition and the image of God in poetry. Alternately sorrowful and biting, Schnackenberg derides a modern society that has lost touch with its historic roots. Ancient ruins figure prominently in this sequence, symbols of an artistic and spiritual splendor that once existed and has now been abandoned and forgotten. Poetry is described as "a gold thread...you feel your way along" in the search for memory...
...fair, no other department releases its budget figures, either. And this is the crux of a larger issue: The administration expects students and other members of the community to accept budget cuts during times of financial peril, like now. From the History Department to the Russian Research Center to intramural sports, everyone's got to hurt a little. Fine...
...fact, the act says colleges cannot "discuss or agree with each other on the prospective financial aid award to a specific common applicant for financial aid." Until 1991, representatives of the schools met annually to discuss specifically financial aid packages for individual students. Those meetings were the crux of the Justice Department 's original objections, the primary reason the schools were seen as conspiring to fix prices and the center of a recently concluded trial where MIT defended the practice...
Nevertheless, the crux of the matter is summed up in a foreword by three directors of the show, Henning Bock of the Gemaldegalerie in Berlin, Henk van Os of the Rijksmuseum and the National Gallery's Neil MacGregor: "If Dou, Drost and Hoogstraten are the true creators of paintings that have for years delighted and inspired us ((as Rembrandts)), it is clearly time we took another look at them as well. Rembrandt remains a giant . . . But he is a giant surrounded no longer by pygmies, but by artists of real stature, whom we ought to know better." What seems...