Word: oughtness
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...suffused with bad feelings and suspicion of ulterior motives on both sides, and has brought out the worst in both its supporters and detractors. It is likely a good thing that most of the country has not found out that the Faculty spent two hours bickering over whether Harvard ought to explicitly support free speech or not. If the entire charade seems silly enough to those who are familiar with the motion’s political implications, it seems downright ludicrous for those looking in from the outside. Complicating the matter further was a convoluted knot of parliamentary procedure that...
Stories by the Brothers Grimm are not as kid-friendly as children’s books perhaps ought to be to the modern eye. Mutilation, murder, cannibalism, and cruelty mark the tales, making for somewhat scarring bedtime stories. 1. The Juniper Tree – A boy, salted with his sister’s tears, is served to his father for supper. Brought back to life as a bird by tears of blood, the boy kills his step-mother, who had decapitated him with the heavy lid of a chest, and everyone lives happily ever after. Hooray! 2. Little...
...would never attempt to prescribe what another institution ought to do,” Stone wrote, “especially in the superior manner that the partial quotes in this article appear to suggest...
This past Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of good judicial sense. In two separate, simultaneously issued rulings, the court determined that federal judges ought to have the freedom to hand down just sentences, even if they contradict federal sentencing guidelines. One of the court’s decisions focused on the disparities between jail sentences given to users of crack cocaine and those doled out to users of the drug in powder form. Following the court’s lead, the U.S. Sentencing Commission changed its sentencing guidelines to close the gap between the punishments given...
...This is a billion dollar project and it ought to come with a large infusion of support into our community,” said Harvard Allston Task Force member Brent Whelan. “Harvard has the resources...