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...think one ought not be trying to formulate public policy when one's only claim to fame is that she's graduated from college," Gardiner says. "If you've never really paid taxes..., if you've never paid rent on an apartment, if you've never bought a car,...I don't think you're qualified to be making public policy...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: D.C.-Bound Gardiner Prepares for Life in Politics | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...Core identified a broad range of slices of the fundamental areas a liberal education ought to include," says Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the history of science. "It was not a broad cluster of subjects, but dealt with knowledge within well-defined and interesting areas...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, | Title: Harvard's Academic Core Gets Once-Over | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...text, Emerson addresses the value of independent thought and asserts that the propensity to confront authority and orthodoxy was one of the hallmarks of a great intellect. He writes: "I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions... I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways." Perhaps it is no surprise that Emerson was sometimes considered a heretic during his academic career at Harvard...

Author: By David W. Brown, | Title: Harvard Teaches Conformity | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...think that's the way Catholic history ought to go," Kselman said...

Author: By Melissa ROSE Langsam, | Title: American History Expert to Take Post At Notre Dame | 6/4/1997 | See Source »

...prevent other resident tutors from similar predicaments, Kane said that the House ought to adopt "Kane's Rule," which would ensure that "no Eliot tutor shall be denied reappointment from office for the following academic year after January...

Author: By Aby. Fung, | Title: Fired Tutor Sends Angry Mass E-mail | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

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