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This country certainly is facing an obesity epidemic, across all ages, but the notion that the solution is the defilement of a popular character’s sole characteristic is pointless and ineffective. Following this same line of thinking, Oscar the Grouch ought to go through a happy streak, one that would hopefully overcome childhood depression, (for that matter Oscar needs to stop living in a trash can; the number of kids following his example there is on the rise...
...Without a context, it tells exactly the opposite story of what it should be telling. The Arab war against Israel is now in its 60th year,” she said. “Soldiers who want to break the silence ought to remind us of why they have to be fighting in the first place, and that context is entirely missing from the exhibit...
...Harvard School of Dental Medicine have already put in place similar regulations, so the question could be asked, why not the rest of Harvard? The difference lies in the mission of the each school: The rest of the schools of the University are not specifically health-care driven and ought not implement seemingly paternalistic policies simply to follow suit. That being said, the sizable body of evidence supporting the deleterious effects of cigarettes will hopefully encourage individual Harvard students, faculty, and administrators to voluntarily quit smoking. Unlike doctors, we do not have a professional responsibility to live healthily...
...Advocates of “tolerance” here at Harvard and beyond ought to be very mindful of which version they inadvertently are promoting...
...colonial period, and must face squarely the moral consequences of colonial slaughter of Native Americans. But it is questionable whether the arena of semiotics is appropriate for these confrontations to take place. The name of the Commonwealth itself stems etymologically from the exterminated Massachusett tribe of Algonquians. Ought we consider changing that as well (perhaps to something like South New Hampshire...