Word: oughtness
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...Perhaps this realization can reminds us that a college education is a choice we have made to dedicate our adult years to study, not a mechanism we can use to remain adolescents for four more. From this understanding stems a fuller sense of purpose and a feeling that we ought to approach our studies with a degree of responsibility. Studying is not a job per se, but in many senses, it is what we do instead of working, and it should not be taken lightly. The birth of my friend's son was a reminder that we are closer...
...Schafer ought to remember this game fondly: It marked the junior lefthander's longest outing and his first start of the 1998 campaign, which has for him been handicapped by off-season surgery...
...these ideas, Novak's suggestion that the black people of this country ought be grateful that our ancestors were taken away from everything familiar to them on the coasts of West Africa and kept as slaves for centuries is the most banal. I don't want to shock Novak, but the Middle Passage was not quite a Carnival cruise. Patterns of whip lashes on the backs of slaves weren't regarded as pretty decorations. And being raped to breed bastard children that would be sold away from you wasn't exactly a good ol' romp...
...these decisions ought to be brought about with a good bit of information. Before writing off others, we really ought to be sure we don't like them. We have our whole lives after college to retire into our own worlds--in the meantime, we ought to try to build a progressive Harvard community which is accepting of others and not so quick to pass judgment...
...talking about a man who uses lies and deception, myth and misinformation to promote discrimination against America's gay and lesbian citizens. So much for his claim that "America's founding ideals ought to be defended abroad because they apply to all human beings." KEN SCOTT Honolulu, Hawaii, April...