Word: oughtness
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...such an article as you printed were to exist, it would presumably reside in the fact that it was a terribly slow news day on campus. But where, I wonder, were The Crimson reporters the very evening the facebook article was being written who might have covered--in fact, ought to have covered--the check presentation to the Jimmy Fund by An Evening With Champions? The check brought the total donation from this student-run group for this year...
...speed at which we are expected to proceed through our Harvard years is not conducive to the mind-expanding and enlightening experiences that college life ought to provide. And yet, not enough of us realize that the speed is too fast. Too many of us have been able to complete the plan-of-study form since eighth grade. Too many have a thesis topic when they enter Harvard. Too many know exactly what field of interest they would like to pursue and therefore need little time to dabble...
Chicago's case was heard by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, which really does exist and is considered the final arbiter on the subject of which building is the tallest. Chicago argued that a tall building ought to be measured to its highest occupied floor rather than to its structural top. That would make the Sears Towers taller than the Kuala Lumpur building, which gets its final 242 ft. of height from some decorative spires that I believe are referred to in the local dialect as tchotchkes...
...schools have always demanded conformity and intense rote learning. But the system has become an extreme, decadent version of what it used to be. And not only do children suffer on account of the schools and cram courses, but they may not even be learning what they ought to. Ichiro Ozawa, the leader of the main opposition party, argues that the educational system is at the heart of Japan's difficulties because it simply forces children to memorize and solve math problems. That may have been sufficient when Japan needed nothing but obedient, selfless workers, but it does not nurture...
...airline industry has reached cruising altitude. Last year it posted a $2.5 billion profit. Compare that with the $13 billion in losses the carriers had piled up since 1990--roughly equivalent to all the profits earned in the history of American commercial aviation--and the industry ought to be smiling, or at least unbuckling its seat belt and raising a $5 martini in a plastic...