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...already stated, I have no real problem with its awarding. Yet I can’t help but feel that there is something backward-looking about even giving an award to a dead man. Yes, the work should be honored, but—and here is the crux of my argument—are prizes supposed to merely be reactive? Are they not supposed to encourage further production of literature along with merely honoring the good work of the past? Should there not be a proactive element to prizes? I have to say that, as unpopular as the Swedish Academy...
...Muslim world. The exhibit highlights the crucial relationship between religious adherence and cultural values and helps us understand both better,” says Paul Beron, director of the outreach center at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. The exhibition has proven an effective way of communicating the crux of Muslim spirituality. But this is just one small step. “Much more needs to be done. This should ideally be part of a larger project at Harvard incorporating the arts as powerful vehicles to foster learning and teaching about cultures that are not properly understood...
...crux of the program is economics, both for the members and the districts where they work. Flores says that by working with the recyclers instead of seeing them as a nuisance, local governments could save a bundle by cutting the fuel costs of garbage trucks and the fees paid to dispose of solid waste. Associations of recyclers would be registered as microenterprises, and members would be eligible for social benefits such as health care while contributing small amounts to the country's tax base - which would make them, according to Flores, "real citizens for the first time." (See pictures...
According to legal experts, the crux of the legal arguments may focus on parts of the taped conversations that aren't getting much attention now, dialogue that helps define the nature of all the pay-to-play politics talk. Defense lawyers will argue that politics is politics and that you can't hold someone criminally accountable for playing by the rules of the political game. Genson tried - unsuccessfully - to make the same point at the trial of Lawrence Warner, a co-defendant of Illinois' disgraced and incarcerated ex-governor George Ryan...
...crux of Faust’s speech was the argument that Harvard has already paid—and continues to pay—its social debts in kind, so to speak; that the work the University does in educating young people and contributing to the world’s research constitutes an unquantifiable sum far beyond what we might provide with a tax from the endowment. “If the endowment were smaller, we would have to do less,” she noted, and then connected this “less” to a string of unassailable...