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...remains to be seen. At worst it could do severe damage to the loan system on which museums depend, while adding very little to the principles of restitution of stolen property. But that's what can happen when grandstanding pols and D.A.s get in on emotionally supercharged issues that ought to be resolved with tact and studious neutrality...
Simpson plans to reside as a Resident Scholar in Eliot House, where he spent last spring semester, with his wife. But his public stances against immigration make us question whether, given his politics, he ought to help determine the make-up of speakers and study groups at the Kennedy School...
...Daily Spin "I told Jerry he ought to fire the whole damn bunch of us." -- A brutally honest Switzer while still coach of the Cowboys...
...another subject this week when the Fed chairman and his wife, NBC correspondent ANDREA MITCHELL, passed through the receiving line at the annual White House Christmas party for members of the press. As they posed for pictures, Clinton asked Greenspan whether he and Mitchell owned a dog. "You ought to get one," Clinton enthused as he recounted tales of his new puppy Buddy. "I think interest rates will go down!" Turning to another member of the press, Clinton joked that "this is the only place I get to talk to [Greenspan]" and then added, "I think the market will...
America's problem is not inhibition. It is exhibition. What the President and the polity and the pedagogues should be preaching is racial decency. Respect. Restraint. Manners. The lesson ought to be: Whatever your innermost feelings--and we have no idea, despite the claims of pop psychology, how to change inner feelings--we demand certain behavior. That is what the civil rights laws are about. They do not mandate a pure society. They mandate right conduct amid impurity...