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...years and embraced the old networking business culture. It became disappointing for me to see young male co-workers spend their precious time on family matters, but your story was an eye-opener. I realize that I am a living anachronism and that changing social structures mean young men ought to lead family lives filled with hope and love. Masaaki Otani, Tadotsu, Japan...
...wrong have proliferated almost as quickly as solemn condolences. Blogs, newspapers, and television talk shows are abuzz with discussions about critical failings on the part of school and government officials. One of the most damning revelations, reported by The New York Times on April 21, revealed that federal regulations ought to have prohibited the killer, Seung-Hui Cho—who had previously been ordered by a judge to receive psychiatric treatment—from purchasing the two firearms, but a misstep on the part of Virginia authorities allowed him to make the purchase nonetheless. Suddenly, gun control was once...
...Instead of the one-size-fits-all policy now in place for funding HoCos, the UC should hold hearings at the beginning of the year, to assess just how miserable each House’s inhabitants really are, or, more accurately, how miserable they ought to be. Forget that the House system should probably reflect its own randomized nature and keep funding as equal as possible across the board...
...Obama and his donor Kirkland and Elliis Professor of Law David B. Wilkins ’77 are black, and blacks are not usually a top source of political dollars. If many of the Clinton contributors were Jewish, would The Crimson be sure to state that fact? News media ought to avoid such divisive references altogether, unless the usage pattern and news value can be explained. As it is, a reader of the article might think that The Crimson has special policies for reporting on Mormons...
...taking [the security breach] very seriously," said a spokesman for the Energy Department, which controls the lab, soon after the incident was made public. He added that Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman "was personally disturbed" by the matter. As well he ought to have been: New details obtained by TIME offer an even more disturbing picture of security at the nation's nuclear inner sanctum than the one outlined last year in a no-nonsense investigation by the Department's Inspector General. In fact, according to government documents, the woman who made off with the weapons designs was herself engaged...