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...none of these seems plausible, then perhaps the presidential race provides the answer. At the second presidential debate in Winston-Salem, N. C. Texas Gov. George W. Bush answered a question on whether the U.S. should share some of its wealth with poorer countries by saying, "we ought to be forgiving Third World debt under certain conditions." It remains unclear whether this statement reflects Bush's sincere concern for developing countries or merely an attempt to match the compassion of Vice President Al Gore '69. Gore has been a strong supporter of the White House's debt relief plan...
...cute," Driskell says, but she adds that she doesn't feel one class ought to pay more for the same services...
...stay in power if he continues to make peace. That basic dilemma explains the Israeli prime minister's decision over the weekend to flash-freeze the process and even moot plans to fence off the Palestinians into Israel's own idea of what their mini-state ought to look like. The suggestion may have prompted Yasser Arafat to tell the media that Barak could "go to hell," but the Israeli leader's reconciliation efforts right now are directed not at the Palestinians, but at the hawkish Likud party leader, Ariel Sharon. In order to stave off political collapse, Barak wants...
Thus, Bush is completely accurate in accusing Gore, whose proposed tax plan includes no cuts for families making over $300,000 per year, of fuzziness. In contrast, Bush's plan is strikingly unfuzzy: He believes that families earning $300,000 per year ought to receive a 9.7 percent tax cut, in spite of the widening disparity between the wealthiest and poorest Americans...
...time I went to retrieve it an hour and a half later, it had been towed," Pedersen says. "If it weren't that I feel that I ought to dress respectably, I'd just go back to biking...