Word: shall
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...have become reasonably clear. This category consists of situations in which donors seek to attach conditions to their gifts that invade what Justice Frankfurter once termed the "four essential freedoms of the university"--"to determine for itself on academic grounds who may teach, what may be taught, how it shall be taught, and who may be admitted to study...
Responding to this challenge, Lowell wrote, "A memorial to men who died for a cause is meaningless for that purpose if it includes those who died for a different or contrary cause....To say that no memorial shall be raised to men who gave their lives for a cause unless those who died on the other side are included is either to condemn the cause as unworthy of the sacrifice; or to say, like barbarians, that all warfare is glorious, and that all who died in battle are to be honored simply because they were warriors...
...over Lebanon was illegal. "Will Israel give Lebanon free access to its airspace? Will Israel allow Lebanese planes to carry out reconnaissance missions in Israeli airspace?" He concluded: "If it depended on us, I would say there would be no war. But if we are attacked by Israel, we shall fiercely defend ourselves...
...since he could not be faithful himself, he did not ask fidelity from others. He once caught a friend in his wife's bedroom, and, instead of starting the usual tiresome scene, invited him to spend the night. The next morning he shook the man's hand. "Shall two old friends quarrel about a woman," he asked, "even when she's a lawful wife?" Like a good father, he gave his discarded loves to his son, but Dumas fils eventually complained about the hand-me-downs: "You know, Father, it's a great bore, you always...
Some banks are now seeking to redefine the prime. New York's Morgan Guaranty Trust has issued a definition that sounds as if it were drafted by committee: "The bank's prime rate shall mean the rate of interest publicly announced by the bank in New York from time to time as its prime rate." Translation: the prime is whatever...