Word: ought
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Those are good first steps, but the paper ought to do more...
...album, “Never Forget: A Journey of Revelations,” to tell us “to be true to who [we] are.” Ever the believer in hard truths, he (sort of) raps at one point, “we ought to have personal responsibility, political accountability, and corporate culpability.” These are revelations indeed...
...four years of leisure provided us by a college education should be spent fruitfully. We ought not fritter away our late adolescence and early adulthood, when our romantic sensibilities are acutest, in the tedium and drudgery of practical politics—whether manning activist brigades or scribbling position papers. We should be enjoying each other’s company without trying to win votes for a future election. We should be playing sports while we still have the time and energy unavailable in the future. We should be reading, writing, and thinking about the good life?...
...practice. Appointments of such import should seriously involve undergraduates, or risk losing an important perspective on the role and responsibilities of such positions. Similarly, students deserve to be judged by their peers alongside faculty and administrators when they are summoned before the Administrative Board.Furthermore, Harvard’s bureaucracy ought to be far more transparent and navigable to the average concerned student. Hunger strikes and protests should not be the only means by which student activists think they can get the administration’s attention. Students with legitimate concerns about the university’s policies or practices should...
...avert a disaster by arguing that there is actually a good result—which is not always possible, but you can here—this ought to be done,” Clinton said...