Word: oughtness
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...true that the ambitions that undoubtedly stir such musings in the President are to be found in most any politician--or most any person, for that matter--who has ever hoped to be a great leader. But those with such lofty aspirations ought to be more careful. Naked ambition is an untamed horse. Train it well, and it will get you to your destination; give it free rein, however, and it will only get you into trouble...
Five House masters told Harvard's presidential search committee last month that whoever leads the University once Neil L. Rudenstine steps down ought to make the College a high priority...
...major difference between the boy who was and the writer-director who is. He has now found a crew of similarly skewed comic co-conspirators and perfected an improvisational technique that permits him to explore--with the sweetest, deadest pan--that place where our visions of glory ought to die for lack of nourishment but somehow survive on the crumbs of hope that drop from the celebrity culture's groaning board...
...look forward to a far-reaching discussion of what Harvard can, and ought to, do; with whom we ought to do it; and what we can expect to accomplish," he wrote...
Cheney, whose daughter is a lesbian, said the issue is not "a slam dunk," but "we ought to do everything we can to tolerate" such partnerships...