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Nice as these distinctions may be, the crux of the matter is that if the President does not want to comply with a subpoena, there is precious little that can be done. Underlying the whole problem is the question of whether and how much the law applies to the President at all. In ordinary matters, of course, it does. He must pay his taxes and catch no more than the legal limit of trout (though Eisenhower used to break that one). "If the President shot the Chief Justice," says Harvard Legal Historian Raoul Berger, "he could be tried in ordinary...
...from "Take Me to the Mardi Gras"'s bass picked guitar lines (one of West Indian music's essences), to "Was a Sunny Day"' brisk, chopped rhythms, to the full guitar chords, electric guitar fills, and the bass riff on "Learn How to Fall." It's just that whatever crux there is to this record is found on four songs...
...crux of Kristol's argument is that America is experiencing a crisis of values in an unprecedented way. There has always been a questioning of basic values in Western society, but this phenomenon was always restricted to what Lionel Trilling calls the "adversary culture," the avant-garde elite. The friction between the elitist culture and the bourgeois society it lived in produced some of Western culture's very greatest art; but so long as the conflict was restricted to an elite, the social consequences were minimal. But it is only relatively recently that this adversary culture has taken over...
...endangered species is another man's backyard pest. That modern-age anomaly is the crux of a dispute between the National Audubon Society and Louisiana's Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wild Life. Arguing that a surplus of alligators was eating up such income-producing wildlife as muskrats and waterfowl, Louisiana reopened the swamplands in Cameron Parish to hunters last fall after an eight-year ban. In 13 days, 1,347 alligator hides were turned over to state authorities to be auctioned off to private businessmen. The Audubon Society, which long ago branched out from birds...
Freund neatly explains the crux of the issue: "Due process of law, and equality of right to live, are afforded not merely for the sake of the potential victims, but for the sake of the judges and of society, to save us from the agony and absurdity of making ultimate judgments of worth, of assuming the role of a god on the Day of Final Judgment...