Word: oughtness
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...English and European football. Which is why, when the Premier League kicks off three weeks from now, returning fans - who routinely cheer on their favorite players in song - will find themselves forced to retire some of last season's tunes and hastily pen some new ones. And nobody ought to be singing louder than the teams' accountants...
Efforts over the past few years to mount a major revival had foundered on disagreements among the show's creators over whether and how it ought to be changed. Michael Butler, producer of the original Broadway show, has favored a faithful rendering, and his production in Los Angeles last year was well received. But Hair's surviving co-author, James Rado, who conceived and wrote the show in 1967 with Gerome Ragni (who died of cancer in 1991), has been more indulgent of changes--adding, subtracting and tinkering with the show in spurts over the years--and he has given...
Pakistan's new civilian leaders ought to have known better. One of the world's most powerful intelligence agencies, routinely dubbed a "state within a state," was hardly likely to submit meekly to the efforts of a newly installed government to bring it to heel. Less than 24 hours after it tried to put the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) organization firmly under government control last weekend, the struggling administration of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani was forced to backpedal under pressure from the military, making clear the limits on the civilian government's power...
...alternate universe goes like this: The last thing Obama ought to do is pick a figure from the Washington establishment. He needs, instead, to reinforce his message of change and shake up the status quo with an outsider untainted by the Capitol games. Such a pick would be aimed not at the party's base but at the pool of independent voters who still aren't comfortable with Obama and are looking all summer for signs that he is both something different and up to the job. Those who back this approach have been talking about Kaine for months...
...number of active users would hit 100 million by year's end. Some 200,000 programmers are making applications for Facebook, and have attracted more than $200 million in investment. That's a lot of users and developers, and a spectacular amount of dough. Zuckerberg and his team ought to feel pretty great about what they've built in a relatively short period of time...