Word: oughtness
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...upcoming election ought to emulate the governor’s race between Weld and Senator John F. Kerry in 1996—a clean, serious seven-debate contest in which the candidates sparred over crucial issues like education and crime. Regardless of the outcome, Massachusetts voters deserve to have two reasonable and viable competitors in the governor’s race. Swift, with all her baggage, could not offer a substantive campaign; Romney at least gives the people of this state a serious choice...
...Someone ought to produce an awards show for movies that simply keep it too real to win Academy Awards. Memento, Tenenbaums and The Man Who Wasn’t There would top this year’s list. A “Best Ensemble Cast” statue would be awarded. The telecast would last a mere two hours. And we would all be unhappy anyway—left with nothing to complain about...
University President Lawrence H. Summers should venture out of his Massachusetts Hall office and jog across the Charles to Dillon Field House. If he is lucky, maybe he will learn the importance of Harvard athletics to his student-athletes. If he rolls back athletic recruiting then he ought to be prepared to deal with significant and organized reduction in alumni donations...
...church tribunal demanded that Joan of Arc submit to the authority of the church. She shrewdly answered that she submitted to the authority of God, since "our Lord and the church are the same." The church ought to have learned, after all these years, not to push Catholics toward the place where, in their disillusioned hearts, they will, like Joan, listen for the unmediated voice of God and decide that the church, with too many squalors and secrets, is untrustworthy and perhaps an irrelevance...
...perhaps one of his most radical claims, Horowitz makes the assertion that blacks ought to be somewhat thankful to America, which he said “was a pioneer in the fight against slavery, and in establishing the first multiracial society in human history.” He seems to forget that it is America who unduly enslaved blacks in the first place and perpetuated that “peculiar institution” for 32 years after the British Empire outlawed...