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Instead, let me talk about a couple of modes of intervention that we can all help accomplish, because they are modes of intervention that will come about when legislators and policymakers, when taxpayers and citizens, agree that that's what we ought to be doing and that's how we ought to be spending our money.

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Where did anybody get the idea that you ought to stay arm's length from politics?

So, "Large-scale governmental surveillance of email and internet traffic ought to be permissible as means to combat international crime and terrorism."

In fact, what we ought to do is take a page from their playbook, because the initiatives and programs that have been set in place for women in science and engineering and mathematics are fantastic.

They've done a lot of good for girls in these situations, and we ought to be thinking about how we can make that happen for boys too in their younger years.

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