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The NYT says the crux of the Kosovo accord is a force of 2,000 on-the-ground international observers and NATO reconnaissance flights designed to monitor Milosevic's withdrawals of police and troops.
Summary is the crux of civilization.
As for Macbeth's great bond , this is a crux over which commentators have argued for years.
The quote from your last message is, of course, the crux of the issue that Alan Wolfe raised and has been at the core of much of my thinking.
This really is the crux of the "necessary" argument: better to have fought and withdrawn than never to have fought at all.