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...crux of "The Silent Scream" (is its implied contention that the fetus can sense pain. The Crimson reporter seems to buy this line when she writes that "presumably, the fetus reacts to perceived or potential pain." The film very carefully builds up this impression through visual tricks and manipulative narration. What it lacks, however, is a basis in fact...
...crux of the anti-divestiture argument is that the dynamism of capitalism, steered by conscientious American firms, will naturally erode apartheid. In the age of supply-side economics. Capitalism-equals-freedom-equals equality is an easy equation to wallow...
...straightforward no-nonense manner, Koppel asked D'Escoto, "are there MIG's on that (Soviet) ship?" D'Escoto replied that Nicaragua had not received any in the past, was not receiving any at present, and had no future plans to receive MIG's. But then he got to the crux of the matter. What right, he asked rhetorically, has the United States to dictate to Nicaragua what weapons it may or may not purchase from another nation? Where in international law is it written that one sovereign nation may not procure the weaponry it determines necessary for its self-defense...
...rest of the play is spent exhausting every funny situation that could possibly arise from such circumstances. The crux of the comedy comes when George is left on stage for what is supposed to be a soliloquy of Shakespeare from Macbeth to a Midsummer Night's Dream. he resorts to reciting the pledge allegiance and the act of contrition. Like the rest of the play, the speech is funny for a while, but rapidly becomes tiresome. By the end of the evening, George's nightmare has become the audience's own bad dream...
...crux of the dispute centers around what exactly Stillman had in mind when he established the roughly $1.2 million trust in 1940. John S. Stillman '40, his son and the executor of his estate, contends that his father and Harvard agreed that the trust would finance Black Rock, with any surplus going to the Harvard Forest in Petersham, Mass. The younger Stillman concedes that there are no written, legal contracts to this effect, but claims his father had extensive correspondence and numerous oral agreements with Harvard President James B. Conant '14 and Treasurer Paul Cabot '21 where that was made...