Word: ought
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Ideally, the American populace ought to be informed, interested, and yet unemotional about its political issues. For a democracy to function, its citizens must care enough to participate but must be willing to defer to the wisdom of the majority. Of course, we do not live in an ideal world, and whatever cause holds our attention must necessarily hold our emotional interest as well. What we must guard against, then, is letting our emotions rather than our intellect guide...
...enclosed "brief, factual description" of Harvard's policies on South Africa, all backing Mrs. Bok's letter. As has been cogently demonstrated by others, the Harvard description is not so objectively factual; it is, rather, in the sense Mr. Shenton did not intend, a "brief," and as such ought properly to have been accompanied by an answering brief...
Perhaps scholars ought to reveal sources of funding for the reasons Professor Hoffmann offers. But I disagree with Professor Hoffmann that "concealment (of sources of funding) deprives them (readers and students) of an important element in evaluating research." Quite the contrary, the source of funding is not important in evaluating research. Again it is the work itself that matters. If we should reveal sources of funding, why not also membership in any political organization that has an interest in a particular issue? Or should we make obligatory an ideological autobiography to inform the reader about the axes about...
...House Budget Committee will begin wrestling in earnest with its own resolution. After helping bang out a budget that reflected more common sense than political ideology, Pete Domenici proudly declared that the Senate plan "sends a signal to the House that something close to this is what we ought...
Baseball as it ought...