Word: ought
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Harris says that the Committee ought to follow its heart, and not relinquish its educational philosophy to the state...
...free marketeer might argue that university student groups should receive no subsidies whatsoever and instead let students vote with their feet on which activities they believe most enrich their college experience. Those students who want to try Brazilian dance, for instance, ought to shell out $30 dollars each to support a program. If a student wants to read the Independent or Perspective, she should pay a quarter for a copy from a vending machine. If fewer people dance or read campus publication, market advocates say, that's just fine...
...extracurricular life becomes twice as dynamic, will our academic life correspondingly become half as significant a force in our undergraduate lives? The truth may be that Harvard's student life will be vibrant even without termbill subsidies; the strength of each entering class guarantees it. In other words, we ought not to have blind faith in the virtue of activities fees...
...saying that last week. In a speech to a convention of union members, he admitted he didn't like to use force but said that he had to do it. Americans would have to decide, he said, whether they agree with him that the nation, as the only superpower, "ought to be standing up against ethnic cleansing." And again in his formal speech from the Oval Office on Wednesday night, he put the humanitarian issue first. Sooner or later, he said, the U.S. would have to get into the fight, and probably at a higher cost, because other countries would...
...refer, of course, to Philo Taylor Farnsworth. The "of course" is meant as a joke, since almost no one outside the industry has ever heard of him. But we ought not to let the century expire without attempting to make amends...