Word: oughtness
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Clemente also finds that, because of the nature of last season, even the young guys are experienced veterans, which ought to be a large advantage for Harvard...
...never be allowed to control their housing for the same shameful reason: "Large communities tend towards cliques based on similarity of origin and upon wealth. Great masses of unorganized young men...are prone to superficial currents of thought and interest, to the detriment of the personal intellectual process that ought to dominate mature men seeking higher education...
...nobody in America ought to rest easy, thinking that Ebola, HIV, hepatitis C, malaria and other scourges that now claim record numbers of people worldwide are "over there"--not here. As long as health care workers "over there" are reusing non-sterile syringes and medical equipment, have no rapid way of contacting international or even national health authorities, lack basic laboratory diagnostic capacities and are overwhelmed by an astonishing array of background diseases that sap the time and intellectual stamina of their staff, nasty microbes will continue to break out. And, as happened with HIV, eventually something "over there" will...
...normal election, if there is such a thing, it ought to be clear by the end what the race is about--whether the candidates are promising continuity or change, bright contrasts or fine distinctions; whether it is about character or competence; whether the results will actually matter in most people's lives or just change the background music on the evening news while they go about multitasking and instant messaging and sorting the laundry and paying the bills...
...looking forward to next Tuesday, either way. I'll vote. But this bad choice is a warning. We ought to work hard to try to deserve something better next time...