Word: oughtness
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...Among the patrons in theater lobbies each summer, the prevailing accent is (accents are) American. I always figured they came over to hear how the language ought to be spoken; the English are so good at English. These days, it's heard more and more on the stage, emerging from the wisecracking mouths of some pretty nasty, venal or certifiably nutso characters. A team at the National is attempting a blend of the racy, rickety newspaper comedy "The Front Page" and its gender-switched movie version, the sublime "His Girl Friday." (This new version, by John Guare, keeps too much...
...Qing dynasty. Chang correctly notes that the Manchus required their Han subjects to wear their hair in queues. But she calls this "a badge of their humiliation"?failing to mention that the Manchus wore their hair the same way. For someone so aware of the dangers of misrepresentation, Chang ought to know better. Still, it's a testament to the power of Chang's subject that the history of the Chinese in America comes through with power and pity?even from a book that, in its determination to rectify past inaccuracies and insults, introduces...
...think students should be entitled to any more or any less privacy than anyone else,” Gerstein said. “Let’s extend the rules. If HUPD has police powers and can walk around with guns on hips and can arrest people, they ought to be under same safeguards that all other police are subject...
Students came to the table with varied thoughts on the direction that business planning in the Square ought to pursue, discussing which aspects of local businesses they considered most successful...
...Sharon has been faithful to the road map laid out in the meeting with President George W. Bush and Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, even when it has meant confronting opposition from some Israelis. Sharon was correct in labeling Abbas "a chick that hasn't grown its feathers." Bush ought to reconsider chastising Sharon for ordering attacks on Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi and other members of that group. The U.S. is creating a dangerous double standard. Yes, innocent Palestinian children may be killed, but how many poor Iraqi and Afghan children have died in the U.S. war against terrorism...