Word: ought
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...College has already rejected the Core, but current students seem to be falling through the cracks. In response, the faculty ought to free students from both decayed and yet-to-be-written requirements. Harvard must ensure the new system’s quality and feasibility for the classes to come, but it should do so without ignoring the needs of current students. The university is bidding a long goodbye to a faulty structure, and although the goodbye is warranted, I, for one, wish it were briefer...
...distorts the issues that candidates focus on and shuts certain states out of the selection process. There is no reason we should allow Iowa or New Hampshire to hold a privileged position in primary season every four years. Instead of starting with the same states during every election, we ought to rotate the states that have the earliest primaries each time. Nevertheless, suggestions that Democrats and Republicans should switch to a nationwide primary are misguided. Having all states vote simultaneously would disrupt the small scale of primaries that allows voters a close and detailed perspective on the candidates...
...article, "but now isn't the time to mock our President." Even as he offers slightly limp critiques of the initial strategy in the war in Iraq, he plucks up Bush's mantle from the mud and declares, "He has kept us safe for six years. We ought to be grateful...
...going to face in the next few states, what strengths you have in New Hampshire and South Carolina, and what the expectations should be of your campaign leaving Iowa? [Doing well in Iowa] should help up in New Hampshire. We understand that geographically there are three candidates that ought to do better than us in New Hampshire. John McCain is a very familiar product there, well-respected, strong organization, he's been running there for 12 years, I guess, or at least 10 years. So he has been there a while...
...Washington Post: Have the last six years been evidence of [that lack of concern]? It's not the Bush Administration. Not at all. I think that would be a very unfair thing to put on the Bush Administration. In fact, I think in many ways the Bush Administration ought to be commended because they tried to reach out through faith-based initiatives. There were many, many plusses. No Child Left Behind - the concept of that really was to say every child matters. There are kids out there underperforming. There is a huge achievement gap between African-American kids and upper...