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...result, these schools will likely receive an influx of major, much-needed donations for professorships, collaborative academic activity and financial aid. In addition to helping the smaller, poorer schools, this change makes eminent sense; such a generous donation to any of the University’s critical academic priorities ought to count for class credit...
...entire villages from the map. His article’s proposal is clear and unequivocal: the automatic and wholesale destruction of entire Palestinian villages will be an appropriate response—and an effective disincentive—to acts of terrorism. If he regrets having made that argument, he ought to retract it openly. Anyone who doubts that “knocking down a few buildings” grossly misrepresents what Dershowitz has proposed should read his article...
...Your financial adviser probably won't tell you so, for fear of being fired on the spot. Stocks, down more than 40% from their peak, are that tough a sell. But everyone who has a lot of time until retirement, little debt and a whopping gain in real estate ought to make the most of their home equity by extracting some and wading into equities...
...fervent commitment to free speech and inquiry requires us to honor them (News, “In About-Face, English Dept. Re-Invites Anti-Israeli Poet,” Nov. 20). Tom Paulin apparently agrees with my second point and has argued that a poet’s reputation ought to be reevaluated in the light of his politics...
...responded flatly: “I hardly feel that I ought to encourage you to try to come back this year...