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...committee, the demonstrators are justified in requesting specifics regarding the committee’s composition, mandate, powers and timetable. Harvard’s administration is far more powerful than the weary demonstrators and can force them out or wait them out without granting their requests, but it ought not to. The demonstrators have right on their side, in two ways. First, there is a powerful moral argument in favor of Harvard’s adopting a living wage policy. And second, even if Harvard’s leaders disagree with this argument or with the demonstrators’ tactics, they...
...winner of the million bucks, but he or she will be the swing vote to pick the one who finishes third. If Colby wins - and after acing physical and mental contests alike on his way to this point, it's hard not to make him the favorite - he probably ought to knife Tina faster than Tina knifed Maralyn, and take his chances against the chef. If Tina wins, she ought to do the same to Colby. And if Keith takes it, well, if Keith takes...
...gourmet chef from the Motor City - and that ought to tell you something right there - is a one-man Three Stooges. He's ruined the Rice-A-Roni, gone wading after lost supplies with the tribe's precious matches in his pocket, and lost his padlock in the high grass while Colby scampered to victory. He's made it this far having won only two immunity challenges - and he had to beg Tina for one of those...
...selected through existing representative bodies such as the Undergraduate Council and the governing boards of the graduate schools. We are concerned at reports that an independent group of students has already inquired about membership on the committee; though we do not doubt these students’ sincerity, there ought to be some greater level of accountability for our representatives...
...Nations ought to be able to exempt certain basic services from private competition; governments ought not to depend on private organizations to deliver a nation’s mail, or even provide a nation’s healthcare, if that government so chooses. Such exemptions and protections ensure that governments will have the ability to directly provide for the day-to-day functioning of society and be accountable for those services’ successes and failures...