Word: ought
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President Clinton ought to be punished for all he has done--for accepting the advances of a 21-year-old intern, cheating on his wife in the Oval Office, lying under oath, lying to the American people. But impeachment is simply an inappropriate response; it is too grave an action for so base a trail of indiscretions...
Truth is the foundation of our justice system. Trivializing the obligation to testify truthfully in a court room, regardless of the matter under investigation, is a serious, high crime against the state. President Clinton ought to do the honorable thing and resign, but his recent public statement indicate his extreme unwilligness to so. It's time for the President finally to step up and take responsibility for his actions in the open forum that a Senate impeachment trial would provide. It seems likely that the House will vote to impeach on Thursday. The staff's protestations aside...
...high seas. These days there is considerable agreement that systematic torture and genocide are such heinous crimes that any country should be free to try those who are accused of them. "Some crimes go beyond boundaries," says Robert Pastor, a member of Carter's National Security Council, "and we ought to pursue them that way." So rather than extradite Pinochet, Britain could try him in an English court...
...them while they engage in lesser daily crimes before they move on to more serious ones." But most worrisome, says Barnes, is the political factor: "Police have learned that there is an incentive in an era of declining crime rates to downgrade the crimes they encounter and report." That ought to be a crime...
...part, council members say, this is because the candidates have accepted the basic philosophy that the council ought to focus on student needs...